"We should be low-key now. Don't attract His Majesty's attention anymore. As long as we are calm, His Majesty will have to turn his attention to some forces that are even more worried about him. Of course, being calm does not mean we do nothing..."

Charles deliberately raised his voice. "According to my judgment, the international and domestic situation will not be very good in the next few years. I will ask someone to shrink their business and save money well. I am afraid it will be useful at that time. Lucien, you and Foster and others try to find like-minded people in the army. But don't be busy promoting them, remember them first... As for political issues, although I went to Vienna, there is a telegram and I won't be able to handle things. You should try to contact as little as possible in the future and wait for the opportunity."

"What opportunity are you waiting for?" Lucien asked back.

"Waiting for me to recover." Charles replied coldly. "Do you really think the Empire can easily abandon me? No, it's impossible. There are too many things in this Empire that I have created. No one can run this machine better than me, and His Majesty the Emperor can't do it. He now thinks that he can throw me away from afar, but time will soon prove how wrong this idea is. According to me, it won't take long to go on the market. The Ministry of Finance has Clement and others... Humph, they can't solve it. At that time... they still have to let me come back and clean up the mess."

Shire said his consideration half-truely and half-falsely. Of course, he would not have said his counterfeit banknote plan on such occasions, but these words were still convincing enough.

"It would be great if that was the case!" Everyone here seemed to have been given a heart attack, and they all smiled for a moment.

"And this time..." Charles' expression was serious and cold, "I will not entrust our destiny to the king's momentary joy and anger."

The restaurant fell into silence again, and everyone looked at Charles as if thinking about the meaning of these words. They would understand.

"Cheers!" Without saying anything more, Charles raised his glass again.

"cheers!"

"Charles, go and have a rest first, I will deal with the rest." After drinking a few drinks, Charlotte said softly in Charles' ear.

"Thank you, Charlotte." Charles did not refuse his wife's kindness, but stood up and apologized to the others.

Because he understood Charles' current status, of course, others would not try to keep him, so they blessed him. Charles also gave him one by one and then walked out of the restaurant slowly.

"Everyone has been waiting for a long time, right?" After taking out a few small notebooks from the dining table, Charlotte looked at the people next to him with a smile, and in a daze, he actually brought the majesty of a queen. "Because there are too many recent changes, we have delayed the dividend payment until today. I hope this Christmas gift can make everyone happy..."

This huge interest group was formed by using kinship and old-fashioned relationships as the roots and money as the links. In addition to Charles, only Charlotte and another person could learn the whole picture.

Regardless of the noise behind him, Charles walked straight out of the side door and walked to the garden of the Duke's mansion. After gently pushing open the glass door, he came to the greenhouse in the garden and felt a spring-like warmth.

This greenhouse covers a large area and is almost wider than ordinary courtyards. Although it is the middle of winter and it is still snowing outside at this moment, the garden is full of flowers, including roses, dahlias, etc., which are the most beautiful and rare varieties of greenhouse flowers. This luxurious greenhouse at Duke Kerson's mansion has always been famous in the upper class of the empire.

I don't know when, the Duke and his wife took care of the exotic flowers and plants carefully as a great pleasure, and often took care of them here; and their children often played here, treating them as an extremely interesting place.

Sitting in a colorful greenhouse, Charle's originally solemn and tense mood suddenly became relaxed. He breathed deeply and felt the rare fragrance in winter.

Then, he walked to the edge of the greenhouse. Because the temperature difference between inside and outside is too large, there are now patches of water mist attached to the glass of the greenhouse, making it difficult to see the outside clearly.

Charles took out his handkerchief from his pocket, then reached out to wipe the glass, and then he looked at the night view outside through the barely transparent glass.

The lit Duke's Mansion was crowded with people at this time, but it sounded like a different world in the greenhouse. At this time, a little white was slowly floating down from the air.

It's snowing.

A gentle footsteps suddenly came from behind. But Charles looked quietly in the distance, motionless.

The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and finally stopped.

Then, Shire suddenly felt a slump on his back.

The sudden person hugged him tightly and pressed his face against his back.

Looking at the snow getting heavier outside, Charles suddenly smiled.

"Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas, sir." The answer seemed to have a little crying voice.

"After Charlotte and I leave, everything here will be left to you. Sorry... I can't worry about the others, I can only rely on you."

"Then let me go to Austria with you and keep Charlotte!" The voice behind him seemed to have some indescribable emotions, "Isn't she the queen of the social circle? Then let her stay, the prosperity here is suitable for her."

"This is not possible." Charles smiled bitterly, "How can the ambassador take office without his wife but with others? Listen to me and look at this place for me, and I will come back soon."

Charles felt that his back seemed a little wet.

"Okay, okay, I will." It seemed that she felt that Charles had made a decision, and she stopped insisting, but her tone became colder and colder. "He...he actually dared to treat you like this. I must kill him, I must kill him!"

"No need to say that it's so serious. He's just for himself." Charles sighed, then turned around, "The children have also entrusted you, don't let anything happen to them."

"Okay, I will never let them encounter any danger. You should also promise me and come back soon."

"Well, I'll do it as soon as possible." Shire nodded.

Then, he turned around and looked at the woman in front of him.

Even though he had read it countless times, this beautiful face still made him feel excited.

He slowly lowered his head and kissed him.

The snow outside was getting heavier and heavier, and the blurry water vapor in the greenhouse slowly covered the glass windows again. The two of them kissed passionately in their hearts, as if the temperature had risen a little.

I don't know how long it took, my lips finally separated.

"I love you..." She closed her eyes and murmured to herself. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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