Lucrezia got up a little early, not because today is a special day, but because Estreth has woken up, and started the first thing she must do in her day when she wakes up - to eat milk.

Estres grew very fast. Although it was only more than a month ago, Lucrezia's fully unfolded body surprised.

Even though she was by her side almost inseparable every day, Lucrezia could feel her daughter's changes, which made her wonder if Alexander would still recognize her daughter if she came back.

Estelles is very edible. Even with a nurse, the two women think that sometimes it may not be enough.

Hearing his daughter's crying, Lucrezia walked to the cradle next to her. This cradle was designed by Alexander, which was not only more comfortable and safer.

After all, it is too common for babies to die in this era. In addition to poor and backward sanitary conditions, sometimes parents' carelessness is often the main reason for the frequent dangers of children.

For example, when Alexander looked at the hanging baskets and the upturned foot baskets, he found a strange discovery that these cradles were either surprisingly short, either the children were naughty inside or the adults were accidentally colliding. As for the hanging basket, either the fixed hanging ropes on the top were too close to make the cradle shake back and forth, or the cradle itself was extremely rough.

Alexander noticed that although the cradle he sent was covered with a layer of soft leather, if you caress it carefully, you will find that some of the corners are made of rough.

Think about the fact that my daughter was lying inside, and her tender skin could be damaged if she moved a little. If she didn't know that the person who was the cradle should not be intentional, he even suspected that someone was going to murder his only daughter.

So after looking at those things, Alexander decided to design and supervise everything Estreth used himself.

This made Lucrezia very happy. In addition to caring for her daughter, she felt more about Alexander's love for her daughter.

This is not because she is the future heir to Pisa, nor because her grandfather is the pope, but because she is purely in love with her children, which makes Lucrezia even feel that Alexander is "worthy of being a member of the Borgia family."

The people of the Borgia family always love each other, at least Lucrezia thinks so.

Her daughter's little mouth kept stuttering. Lucrezia endured the slight pain caused by her daughter's ignorance. She gently stroked her daughter's hair. Looking at Estrece's cute look that seemed to squint her eyes happily because of her milk, Lucrezia lowered her head and gently kissed her daughter's tender forehead.

Just then, a gentle knock on the door sounded.

Lucrezia was a little surprised that something would happen so early. She knew that there should be only her maid outside, so she didn't care and just walked over to open the door with her child in her arms.

Seeing Lucrezia, the maid standing at the door immediately reported to her in a low voice: "Madam, there are several members of the parliament and the chamber of commerce who want to see you, as well as the captain."

Lucrezia knew who the people in the chamber of commerce were mentioned by the maid, and also knew that the captain she mentioned should be the captain of Pisa City Defense.

This made Lucrezia's heart suddenly tighten. The first thing she thought of was something happened to Alexander.

Lucrezia immediately retreated to the room, first put the child in the cradle, and then hurriedly put on her clothes with the help of a maid.

Maybe she had eaten enough breakfast. Although she suddenly lost her milk, Estreth did not cry. She just lay in the cradle and gently swayed her slightly thick little arm, and then made a meaningless "ohoh" sound in her mouth.

Lucrezia was very fast, much faster than she usually changed clothes. After looking in the mirror, she walked out of the bedroom, then stopped in the middle of the outside room and calmed down her slightly nervousness, then nodded slightly to signal the maid to open the door.

Several men were standing outside in the corridor at this time, because there were a lot of people and looked a little crowded.

Speaking of which, although the name of Lucrezia Palace sounds quite grand, it is actually just a two-story building, with a few small rooms and a small living room, and even the stairs can only allow two people to pass by side.

As for the size of the garden, not to mention the size of Lucrechia's palace in Rome, even the gardens of many nobles in Pisa are much more grand than here.

This place is a place where a lover meets, it is naturally better. If it is a home for a wealthy family, it is also extremely warm. However, as the home of Pisa's future heir, it will seem a little narrow and shabby, which is inappropriate.

Someone once asked Lucrechia and his son to move to the Duke Palace more than once. After all, Tomño had returned to his own house and lived in secluded place. The Duke Palace was suddenly empty, and the legal heir of Pisa lived in a small house by the river. This was indeed a bit out of place.

But this suggestion was rejected by Lucrechia.

Her reason was to wait for Alexander to make a decision after he came back, which caused many speculations, from the situation in Pisa to its impact on Estrece's future status, from the meaning behind this decision, to whether this was hinting at something to the Pope in the Vatican, Pisa had a lot of heated discussions about the residence of Lucrezia and his daughter.

In fact, the reason why Lucrezia refused to move is very simple. She likes this small house very much.

This is the little world where she and Alexander once avoided everything. Only here will she feel that everything outside has nothing to do with them, and this place only belongs to them and their daughter.

But once they walk out of this yard, there are too many things they have to face, some of which may even make the originally happy "family of three" separate in an instant.

But Lucrezia's happy little world was invaded this time. Looking at the expressions on the faces of those people, she could also feel that something important might have happened.

Lucrezia wanted to calm herself down as much as possible, her mind was spinning rapidly, and her years of experience at Borgia's house made her face more calm than most women.

And from the expressions on these people's faces, she was sure that it wasn't Alexander's fault, otherwise it would be these people who came at this time, but fully armed guards.

In addition to the City Defense Forces, there is another army that has not been officially recognized by Pisa, but its strength is not as strong as the City Defense Forces. Over time, it has even replaced the City Defense Forces and became the first armed force in Pisa.

This army was the Chamber of Commerce Guard formed by the big merchants of the Pisa Chamber of Commerce.

This chamber of commerce guard, which was claimed to be built purely to protect the interests of the Pisa Chamber of Commerce, not only has a larger size than the city defense force with more than 700 people, but also has enough armor, swords, spears, crossbows, war horses, pack horses, baggage chariots, tents, and even two small cannons that I don’t know where to get it.

The flag of this chamber of commerce guards is also very distinctive. A side-face bust of the patron thief of Mercury, a Roman mythical merchant thief and the traveler's guardian god, his pair of wings that originally represented speed on his ankles were placed on both sides of his helmet, and the head of the snake on his hands that originally indicated the guidance of the undead into the underworld was also replaced with a gold coin pattern with the image of Athena like the female war god.

This flag originally showed the origin of this merchant guard. Except if you look closely, you will find that Athena on the gold coin of the scepter in Mercury's hand was not holding a spear and a shield, but a somewhat inappropriate musket...

If Alexander really had an accident, the first thing that would appear would be the Montina soldiers who stayed to protect Lucrezia's Palace, then the Chamber of Commerce Guards, and then the Pisa officials or merchants.

At that time, these people would quickly send Lucrezia and his daughter from Pisa Harbor as Alexander told him before, and then head south along his brother Lenianhai, and send them to Naples.

If the situation was urgent at that time, the team might not even enter Naples City, but would immediately head towards the mainland after getting ashore and quickly advance towards Kosencha!

Alexander handed over the fate of his woman and daughter to his most trusted and beloved sister.

At the same time, according to the arrangements Alexander had made early, if he might have an accident, Ruosha will automatically take over the entire Free Trade Union.

At the same time, his daughter will inherit all the interests in the agreement between him and the Fuger family, and then become the supervisor of the alliance.

Lucrezia will be with her daughter as Estreth's dependent when she was a minor.

And all this will be carried out under the joint supervision of Diego, a merchant of Baliarli who has now left Italy and traveled to Castilla, with his loyal servant Uriu, and his close friend, Mahimo, the president of the Monastery of St. Mark in Florence.

Alexander thought a lot, especially in such a chaotic world, he didn't know where he would go in the future, nor what was waiting for him in the future.

Perhaps a stray bullet on the battlefield or a dagger in the dark streets could completely end all his traces of this era, so in order to prepare for the arrival of a day that might appear at any time, he had already made all preparations.

He also told Lucrezia about some of his arrangements. As his daughter's mother, Lucrezia certainly has the right to know this.

But now looking at these people outside the door, although Lucrezia guessed that it was probably not the kind of thing she was most afraid of, her heart suddenly became tight.

"What happened?" Lucrechia secretly told herself that she had to calm down. Everything she had to do now had to take into account her daughter first.

"Madam, someone went to see the Duke last night." A merchant said with a serious expression. His eyes looked at the city defense captain next to him. Before they came, they knew that the other party had already understood what was going on, which made them know that it was not just him who stared at the Duke of Pisa.

"Those people should be Venetians," said the city defense captain dullly. His face was not very good, and his eyes were a little cold and hostile when he looked at the others. "Our people found that they seemed to want to meet Tomño, but unfortunately my people were unable to catch them."

"So how do you know that they are Venetians?" Lucrechia was a little surprised. She could sense that the captain seemed to have a bit of a relationship with the people in these chambers of commerce, but she didn't pay attention to these things.

"I can smell the stench of the Venetians far away," the captain said, and when he saw the eyes of several people, he shrugged and continued, "It was actually my people who heard their accents, and when someone fought with them, they discovered that they were using the kind of stinging sword that Venetians liked to use."

Lucrechia frowned, and she looked at the people in front of her, as if she wanted to know their purpose.

"Madam, as the world enemy of Pisa, Tomgnor met the Venetians, which was a serious act," a MP who had been silent suddenly spoke, his eyes looked a little straight, as if his soul had been completely pulled away when he said this. "As the Duke of Pisa, Tomgnor failed the trust and loyalty of the people of Pisa."

Lucrezia's heart suddenly jumped. She vaguely guessed something, but was not sure.

So she said carefully: "Parliamentarian, please pay attention to your words, this is a very serious charge."

"In fact, Madam, we have enough evidence to prove this allegation," the businessman who had spoken before looked at the others. After receiving a few people's nods and acquiesces, he made a little move away and let a servant with his hands holding a sword.

Although it was still a little far away, Lucrezia immediately smelled a strong smell of blood coming from the sword.

She immediately reached out to cover her nose and looked at her daughter's room. After confirming that the smell would not reach the bedroom, she looked at the sword.

The entire sword was covered with solidified blood. Several blood fingerprints that could be vaguely seen on the hilt of the sword were twisted hard by someone, which made the sword look even more cruel.

Despite feeling uncomfortable, Lucrezia still noticed the strange and abrupt shape of the tip of the sword. It was a strange look that the tip of the sword was much narrower than the body of the sword. It gave people the feeling that it was just to highlight the sharpness and sturdiness of the sword tip.

"This is just a sting sword that the Venetians like to use. The Venetian sword faction is one of the most prestigious schools on the West Coast of the Mediterranean, and they are even more intimidating than those that have been passed down from the Crusaders."

The city defense captain explained to Lucrezia. Seeing Lucrezia's confusion look, the captain bowed slightly to avenge the crime, and then took the Venetian sword from his servant.

As his wrist suddenly exerted force, the stabbing sword pierced a door panel next to him.

With a "boom!", a hole appeared on the solid door panel.

"The Venetians' fighting swordsmanship is not used on the battlefield. They are more about resolving personal grievances on the streets, and for assassination."

Hearing this sentence, Lucrezia's body trembled slightly.

"Please rest assured, madam, you and Miss Esteleth are absolutely safe." The captain quickly comforted Lucrezia. The gradually developing chamber of commerce guards had begun to make him feel uneasy. If Lucrezia thought that the city defense force could not protect the safety of their mother and daughter, then the city defense force would have a hard time.

"They are using this weapon, but this time they are here to find the Duke."

Lucrezia noticed that these people always had some strange expression when they mentioned Totomño, which made her gradually confused.

"These people obviously intend to use Tomnio, but they obviously didn't expect that we were watching him all the time, so our people soon discovered the conspiracy, but we didn't expect that these people would be so bold that they actually tried to rob Tomnio from Pisa."

Lucrezia let out a low cry, and she immediately realized the seriousness of the matter.

Not caring about the situation does not mean that she is stupid. On the contrary, as a member of the Borgia family, Lucrezia is very clear about the current relationship between Pisa and other city-states.

The thought of Tomño who might escape from Pisa or even defect to the Venetian made her face flush with nervousness.

"Captain, haven't you caught those Venetians?" Lucrezia asked excitedly.

"I'm sorry, Madam, they had already escaped when our people arrived."

"So," Lucrezia paused, and although she was nervous, she still asked, "Where is the Duke? Did the Duke be kidnapped by them?"

"Madam, this is this..." The captain looked at the others with a ugly face. Seeing that they looked at them with a gloomy expression, the captain finally spoke with difficulty after hesitating for a while: "It was night when our people found them. Because it was dark and worried that they might escape, they were a little too impatient when they captured these Venetians, so they killed all of them."

Lucrezia was stunned for a moment. She looked at the others without understanding, and then looked at the city defense captain.

"Didn't you just say you didn't catch them?"

"I didn't catch anyone, I didn't catch anyone."

"Wait a minute, do you say you're all killed?" Lucrezia seemed to have suddenly remembered such a crucial sentence, "Did you say you've killed everyone?"

"It was dark at that time, and those people were so cruel, so the people we had to use crossbows, so..." The captain paused, and then said helplessly, "Our people did not find that the Duke was among them. We don't know if he was really kidnapped, but this is no longer important." Speaking of the captain licking his lips, he said with difficulty, "The Duke died with those people, and was shot to death by our crossbows."

Lucrezia looked at the people in front of her in shock, as they bowed slightly to her, and looked at the two servants carrying a full set of cloaks and a sword coming from behind these people.

Seeing this scene, Lucrezia was a little stunned, and then she bowed to the pizza people to return the salute.

Then she straightened her waist and turned around, walked to the bedroom door and listened slightly to the movement inside, then she gently pushed open the door.

The room was quiet and Estreth was sleeping soundly.

She obviously didn't know that with her mother's departure and back, her identity, status, and future destiny had undergone tremendous changes.

Lucrezia walked to the cradle and looked at her beloved daughter, then she picked up Estelece and gently kissed her daughter's tender forehead.

"My daughter, you are the Duke of Pisa," Lucrezia whispered in the ear of her sleeping sweet daughter, "Long live the Duke of Pisa, Estress Juliant Kombre."
Chapter completed!