Chapter 178 Long live the king!
A Luoxia looked at Sophia who appeared in front of her in a daze. At this time, she would see Sophia. A Luoxia was not happy, but on the contrary, she felt a deep fear.
She knew that Sophia was furious about the assassination and saw her on the eve of the impending trial, which made Aluoxia feel that tomorrow might be a terrible day for her.
Sophia stood motionless in front of Aluoxia, with no expression on her face. Speaking of which, she had indeed thought of being friends with this girl from Croatia. After all, in the Valachia court, she did not have a friend who could make love with her. Although the nobles reminded her more than once that Aluoxia is a Croatian, so she should be careful, but Sophia did her own thing and not only invited Aluoxia into the castle, but also arranged for her to live there.
But Sophia did not expect that this would be the end. When someone reported to her that Aluoxia was involved in the cathedral murder, her anger was no less than when she was in the cathedral because she felt that she had been betrayed.
So now looking at A Luoxia, Sophia's anger is far greater than disappointment. After all, only when she is hurt can she be disappointed and sad. Now Sophia is just angry.
Perhaps the only one in the world who can disappoint her is Alexander, and she believes that Alexander will never do that.
"Aloxia Annasanya Herva, Earl of Slavobeniger, has been postponed," said the Wallachian official, who stood on Sophia's side, and said to Aloxia with a cold expression. He looked puzzled by her. The official ignored her and continued, "According to the agreement with the Croatian envoy, you must leave Bucharest before sunrise today, and you will be placed in a safe place until we reach an agreement with the King of Croatia on your issue, during which you will not be able to contact anyone, to be precise, you will be placed in a convent. As for your status and identity, His Highness the Grand Duke has ordered that you be respected and that you will be treated as a guest, not a prisoner."
A Luoxia looked at Sophia unexpectedly. She originally thought that Sophia came to see her overnight to tell her that she would be sentenced to death, but now when she suddenly heard this news, A Luoxia didn't know what to say for a moment.
It was only then that she seemed to realize that it was really rude that she was sitting in a daze, so she stood up as if she was bounced up, but just as she was about to speak, Sophia had raised her hand and made a stop gesture.
She glanced at the officials next to her and signaled him to retreat temporarily. When there were only two of them in the room, Sophia slowly walked towards A Luoxia. She stopped and looked at her very close to her under A Luoxia's uneasy gaze. Then she suddenly raised her hand and grabbed A Luoxia's chin. As A Luoxia struggled because of frightened, Sophia's hand slowly raised, and at the same time her hand became tighter and tighter.
A Luoxia felt that she was about to suffocate. She wanted to shout but her throat hurt so much that she couldn't make any sound. At the same time, her body was slowly lifted up. Her toes were kicking on the ground with her feet and toes. She couldn't break Sophia's hand with all her strength. The dizziness caused by suffocation made stars appear in front of her. At this time, A Luoxia couldn't help but find that Sophia was going to kill her like this!
With a "bang", A Luoxia felt dizzy and fell heavily to the ground. Although the pain of her shoulder hitting the corner of the bed made her cry out in pain, she lay on the ground and gasped for breath.
A shadow over her head covered A Luoxia. She was so scared that she couldn't help but shrink her body back a few times, but hit the bed behind her again. In her horrified gaze, Sophia squatted down beside her. She looked down at A Luoxia, so focused, as if she wanted to remember her similarity. Then she didn't care whether A Luoxia could understand it or not, and quickly gestured to her.
When she stopped, she stretched out her hand again. This action scared A Luoxia's body trembled, but this time Sophia's hand was very gentle. She slowly poked out her hand to caress A Luoxia's cheek, and gently held her chin to let her raise her head to look at her.
A Luoxia saw Sophia open her mouth and said something silently, as if she was forcefully and slowly. Then she slowly understood a name that seemed to be chanting between Sophia's opening and closing lips.
"Alexander..." A Luoxia repeated the name that was revealed between Sophia's lips inexplicably with horror. Seeing Sophia's eyes bent slightly and nodded, she asked uneasily, "What are you going to say to me, what are Alexander?"
Sophia continued to open her mouth and speak out little by little, while her hands slowly gestured, which made A Luoxia finally understand what she was going to say.
"Alexander, it's mine, don't think about... taking it away?"
When she finally understood what Sophia meant, Aluxia looked at her in panic. She knew that if Sophia really misunderstood that she wanted to take Alexander away, her current situation might not have been waiting for her to leave Bucharest before dawn, or her body would have been found floating in the Denbvica River after dawn.
It seemed that she was very satisfied to see A Luoxia finally understand what she meant. Sophia stood up, and she looked down at A Luoxia who was leaning against the bed, and suddenly bent down and raised her hand to wave her slightly, as if she was saying goodbye to her good friend.
Then she turned around and walked towards the door, never looking back at her.
Aluoxia left Bucharest before the sun came out.
Because of Morko's sudden disappearance, the accusation against Aluoxia suddenly became meaningless. Although there were many previous confessions of Morko, the Archbishop of Zagreb insisted that these confessions could only prove Morko's crimes, but could not prove that Aluoxia was also involved in the conspiracy. According to Aluoxia's confession known to people so far, she was purely sympathetic to Morko. Although this statement was regarded as a joke by many people, it made the Archbishop feel that he had grasped and saved his life.
While the Archbishop secretly guessed that the person who robbed Morko was probably Kurash, he kept using Wallachia to find more evidence that Aloxia was involved in the conspiracy as a reason to try to ask someone to plead for love. Two days passed in a hurry until late at night on Judgment Day, the Archbishop, who was almost desperate, was suddenly invited into the castle overnight.
The next was a series of negotiations that surprised him but obviously turned around. In the end, A Luoxia was able to get rid of the trial after tomorrow, but the Wallachians were only willing to make so many concessions.
Under the silent gaze of Sophia, who was sitting on the throne from afar, the Palace of Wallachia made a suggestion that before finding evidence to begin a new trial involving both parties, Aloxia was forbidden from leaving Wallachia, and she would be placed in a convent until all this was finally resolved.
In the view of the Archbishop, this suggestion is actually like life imprisonment. Everyone present knew that the relationship between Wallachia and Croatia had reached a tense point. There were more troops gathered on the border than anywhere else. At this time, no matter what the judgment resulted, one side would not accept it.
And will Herva admit this judgment? The Archbishop thinks the answer is obvious.
Obviously, Herva should be very satisfied with such an ending, perhaps exchanging a niece who was imprisoned in Wallachia for peace with Wallachia so that he could free up his hands to deal with the difficult Roye? This is probably the best result for Herva.
The agreement was finally reached late at night. Looking at the Wallachians who seemed to be very satisfied, the Archbishop suddenly guessed that perhaps Morko's disappearance was the Wallachians' own masterpiece.
The Archbishop would never know that his guess was infinitely close to a truth, but now he didn't care about this. He needed to tell the other people in the messenger group this news. As for Aluoxia, according to the Archbishop, it might be more appropriate to see her again after leaving Bucharest.
Sophia kept sitting silently in the distance and watching the entire negotiation process. This was rare and put a lot of pressure on both sides.
However, when the agreement was officially signed, Sophia suddenly stood up and left without any warning. Her very cold look at the Archbishop felt a little hurtful of her self-esteem.
Then, she met A Luoxia who was being detained.
Sophia, who returned to her room, did not go to bed. She was waiting for the news until the maid next to her reported to her that the carriage carrying Aluoxia left Bucharest. The people who were traveling with her were the Archbishop and his envoys. However, Alexander, who she cared most, did not appear. Sophia lay on the bed as she looked at the faint morning light that had gradually appeared outside the window.
But before she could just close her eyes and sleep for a while, a deep and melodious bell sound had already floated in from outside the window.
Sophia immediately opened her eyes. Although she was very tired, she forced herself to get up and walk to the door. After carefully opening the door and looking into the corridor, she finally breathed gently with satisfaction.
She saw Sher who was walking past the door of the opposite room. It was Alexander's room in the castle. During this period, because of the Cathedral incident, Alexander was in a busy state. Sometimes he would come back very late. In order not to disturb Sophia, he would sleep in the close room opposite. At this time, when he saw Sher at the door, Sophia knew that he should be resting inside.
Sophia felt that she was catching a villain.
When she heard that Alexander was going to rob Morko and changed the trial of Alexander to a long-term imprisonment, she began to suspect that Alexander actually fell in love with Alexander. Given Alexander's unreliable past and poor deeds, Sophia thought that this possibility was really great. So although she finally agreed to the suggestion, she gave Wallachian officials before the negotiations that even if they were imprisoned, they could not be in Bucharest, but somewhere away from the capital, preferably a convent where men stopped, and Alexander had to leave overnight and not be allowed to stay for a moment.
Now Aluxia has finally left, and Alexander has not gone to see her off, which made Sophia very satisfied because she had the same idea as the Archbishop. It was impossible for Aluxia to come out of the convent, and what awaits her will be long-lasting house arrest.
Alexander knew very well about Sophia's little thoughts, but he neither stopped nor corrected them. He allowed Sophia to make the first decision about relations with neighboring countries in this way. As for whether this decision is good or bad, whether it is right or wrong, Alexander did not want to change her decision.
Alexander knew that she could not stay in Wallachia for a long time, so Sophia would have to face the test of being alone one day. Although she has done well so far, the time is still long and she will face more tests.
Perhaps it will succeed, but more of it is failure and lessons. Alexander knew that only in this way could she gradually master the tricks of dominating a country, and then she would start the smooth journey along the route she had arranged.
Alexander did not go to see A Luoxia off. This was not because he was worried that Sophia would be jealous, but because he had more important things to do at this time.
He went to arrange the next thing.
Morko was dead and was secretly executed not long after being robbed from the fort by Kulash and handed over to Alexander. The body was thrown into a pit that had been dug long ago and then ignited with black oil. After the flames completely burned the pit into a large brazier, the soil was buried.
The people doing this were Nashan and several Agri Hunting Guards. They were told not to tell anyone about this. Looking at the burning fire, several Hunting Guards couldn't help but pray secretly. They knew that the Duke must have hated the murderer who tried to murder the two little masters, but because of anger, the body burned, which made the Hunting Guards feel that the Duke was really angry this time.
It was also on that night that Kulash took Omo and quietly left Bucharest, and they brought a handwritten letter from Alexander, with which Omo could enter Bologna or at the University of Paveya in Pisa.
As for Kulash, Alexander did not think he needed help from others. In fact, soldiers like him were a good time to show off in Italy in this era. However, because of Omo, Alexander was not very worried that this person would become his enemy in the future.
Everything went as planned, and the only thing left was that even if the trial was cancelled, Wallachia still needed an enemy, or an excuse to vent the anger of the attack of the eldest daughter and son.
According to Moldo's confession, the Grand Duke of Stefan of Moldova and the fleeing Royes were the masterminds of all this, but Alexander was not satisfied with the answer.
This is not because Stefan is a hero who fights the Ottomans, but because he knows that this man won't live long.
Alexander can't remember clearly when Stefan of Moldova died, but he knew that in recent years, in order to compete for the throne for a period of time, Stefan's younger brother and his son who were supported by the Ottomans had a civil war. The civil war eventually ended with his son's victory, but this also created conditions for the Ottoman Empire to have a deeper impact on Moldova.
But all this happened when no one else joined in it. Now there is one more Roe? It is hard to say what the future of Moldova will become.
And Roye, who received secret support, could taste the sweetness in the Moldova competition, then would he launch a war against Northern Bosnia again?
Alexander was surreptitious about the various speculations that these did not appear in history but may happen now, or may never show history again. At the same time, when Aluoxia just left, she prepared for the trial that was destined to be without the defendant the next day.
On May 22, a trial without a defendant began. In this absentee trial that lasted only half a day from beginning to end, all the evidence pointed to the former heir of the Grand Duke of Wallachia who had tried to conspire to rebel. Although he had been sentenced to the death penalty after the bankruptcy of the plot a year ago, his followers and sympathizers were raised mercilessly in this trial.
The Wallachian nobles realized that the spearhead that had just been shirked and avoided was pointed at them again, but this time, because of the confession of Aluoxia that had been prepared before, the Wallachian nobles could only refute it on the grounds that Aluoxia was not present on the spot, so they could not prove whether the statement was true.
A trial once again became a dispute within Wallachia, which made many foreign messengers who were paying attention to this trial look good in surprise and excited.
Judgment turned into arguments and quarrels. Just when everyone could not listen to others' words and could not let others hear their own words, Sophia suddenly stood up!
She strode forward to the open space. When everyone saw her like that, they couldn't help but remembered her actions when she led her troops into the noble council. Sophia raised the scepter in her hand and beat the ground hard!
Sophia glanced sternly over the nobles who had lost their voices. The scepter in her hand kept lit gently on the marble floor, and the dense "double" sound made seemed to hit everyone's heart.
Then she turned around and looked at the Greeks who were having a great time with the Wallachians. Then she suddenly walked forward quickly, and before everyone could understand it, she pulled off a flag raised by the Greeks, which was the flag of the Valleo family. She did not stop in the exclamation of the Greeks, but walked forward along the railings with the flags. Along the way, she pirated off the flags of the Wallachians or Transylvanian nobles. In the end, only the flag of the Duchy of Wallachians stood there.
Everyone looked at Sophia in amazement, and the hall was silent for a moment.
Alexander had been watching Sophia's actions. When she finally stopped angrily and glared at the flag, Alexander slowly stood up.
Chapter completed!