On the banks of the river in late summer and early autumn, many people take a walk here to cool off.

There are many stone benches on the grass by the river for tourists to rest. Charles and the other two were sitting on it and eating with toothpicks and candied cherries.

Slim wooden disposable toothpicks are handmade, but people here have suitable alternatives.

Here are some hedgehogs of moderate size, with thorns about six to nine centimeters long.

When they encounter danger, they will curl up, and people will turn them over with long sharpened sticks and stab them to death from their soft abdomen.

Their meat will be eaten, and the skin with needles on them will be thrown into the pot and boiled with water until it boils. When the venom on the thorns fails due to protein degeneration at high temperatures, these thorns are the best toothpicks.

Linda, who has only seen a toothpick made from gold, has seen this cheap disposable toothpick for the first time. She is still curious about the baby and even tried the sharpness of the toothpick with her fingers.

"Sour!" Diana, who had just eaten a cherry, shook her whole body, "Why does this maple syrup have a sour smell?"

Charles, who sat on Diana's left, was the best candidate to answer the question, saying, "There is the taste of the maple syrup itself. The maple syrup here has a sour and bitter taste when it was just collected."

"After the maple syrup collected is boiled and dehydrated, the bitter ingredients inside will evaporate together with the water. This bitter ingredients will cause diarrhea to the eater."

"But the sour ingredients in it are not that easy to remove, but this ingredient will decompose after being heated beyond a certain level, so the barbecue we eat does not have this taste."

"And this sour ingredient is slightly toxic. Eating too much can kill digestive parasites and can also be used as a preservative."

"Wow!" Diana immediately discovered the point, "If it can be used as a fresh preservative, wouldn't it be very profitable after refining it?"

"Otherwise, how do you think my family makes money?" Charles said. "My family bought the newly collected maple syrup and deep processing, and then sold anti-worming agents, fresh-preserving agents and other chemicals made of these ingredients. It is precisely because of the high profits of these chemicals that we can sell the remaining maple syrup left after refining at a low price."

"How did you extract that sour ingredient?" Diana asked.

"Trade secrets, no comments," said Charles, "unless you take my last name."

"Go cool down on the side." Then Diana picked up the toothpick in her hand and acted to slap Charles.

At this time, an old man wearing linen clothes that civilians often wear, with a scoop bag on his back, and a hat on his head suddenly appeared beside Charles. He hunched over and said to Charles, "Children, do you want to buy books?"

Charles stood there, but Diana immediately discovered the problem.

Books made with parchment are expensive and are sold in bookstores. A person wearing linen clothes and carrying sacks asked you if you want to buy books. You think it is a plot in the novel, and you think it is either a fool or a stupid person.

More importantly, this person is a bit overly strong. This is not the figure that ordinary civilians or even poorer adventurers should have.

The first thing Diana thought of was that it was sent by human traffickers, but for some reason, the secret guards around Linda did not stop this suspicious guy.

So she pulled the dazed Charles behind her, then raised her dagger and blocked Charles and the visitor.

At this time, Charles also came to his senses. He grabbed Diana who was ready to go and said, "Don't be nervous, this is my grandfather, Duke Redkin of the Kingdom of Rebach."

"Grandpa?" Diana was unable to accept the reversal at once.

At this time, Duke Redkin, dressed in a civilian dress, stood up straight, and looked at Diana, who was still holding a dagger with her eyes picking cabbage in the vegetable market, "Yes, just by your reaction, I allow you to call me grandfather."

Regardless of Diana who was stuck in a dull state, Duke Redkin asked Charles, "Little Charles, how did you recognize me? I remember I never told you my identity?"

Charles replied, "Sister Mira and I have known it for a long time."

Duke Redkin scratched the back of his head, "I thought I had a successful disguise."

Back then, after Charles' father kidnapped Duke Redkin's youngest daughter whom he was going to marry, he made Duke Redkin very angry. At that time, he shouted and pretended that he had lost his daughter.

Later... Anyway, a few years later, a suspicious businessman would appear in the market under Earl McGarden from time to time.

This businessman specializes in the business of the Earl's children. He would sell all kinds of exquisite small toys to the Earl's two children at an extremely low price. However, his business was not easy to do at the beginning. Who made Charles and Mira not like toys but like to read books? This made all the goods he brought from thousands of miles away.

Whenever this suspicious person appears, Charles and Mira can get pocket money from their mother and their secretly visiting grandmother, and then go to the village market to play.

Diana had come to her senses at this time, lifted her skirt and curtsy to Duke Redkin.

Linda hesitated for a moment, and finally went over to greet Duke Redkin.

Duke Redkin snorted in his nostril and thought he was saying hello to her.

Charles whispered to Diana, "Most of the Grandpa's territory was stolen from Linda's."

The riverside was not a place for conversation, and Duke Redkin took Charles and the others to his residence.

Linda stood there and didn't know if she should follow. Charles turned to her and said, "Let's come together and see what conditions had been offered by King Antoine II. If he could calm down a father who had lost his daughter, then I would also choose to forgive him."

"There's nothing to say." Duke Redkin said to Linda in a deep voice. "Go back and tell Antoine II that you will either pay your life or cede land and pay compensation, or you will use you to marry the Redkin family, and there is no fourth way to go."

Not far away, four adventurers dressed in adventurers were knocked to the ground by a group of light armored men, and were now lying on the ground with a bruised nose and panting.

Duke Redkin's escorts met the guards sent by King Bischberg to protect Linda, and then beat them up first.

When Duke Redkin and his group left, the escorts who fell to the ground climbed up from the ground with difficulty, and then went to protect Linda who was standing alone.

While on the way, Duke Redkin found that Charles was frowning and did not speak, so he asked, "What, are you worried about that Queen Bischberg?"

"No." Charles shook his head, "I just recalled that I heard my grandmother say before that my uncle and cousin's wives are the daughters of nobles in the Kingdom of Rebach, and they are all your core supporters."

"If the Redkins want to marry the Bischberg family, then besides the uncle and cousin..."

Charles paused, "Then it's only grandpa, you divorce your grandma, and then you marry the Queen Beschberg."

Then he thought about it and said, "But this is not impossible. For grandpa, your career and goals, a queen from a neighboring country is conducive to the stability of the external environment."

Although Charles was just trying to joke at first, the more he said it, the more he felt that this was possible. Of course, the premise was that someone didn't know who his grandmother was.

After saying that, he found that his grandfather had stopped and was looking at him carefully, while his face was full of thoughtful expressions.

"It makes sense." Redkin said.

A man in a black tuxedo suddenly appeared behind Duke Redkin's side, and he said, "Master, I will report this to my wife truthfully."
Chapter completed!