Chapter 157 Carriage and Carriage

A robin with a diamond crown... a symbol of royalty?

Looking back through the air vent at the rear of the carriage, the young woman in the carriage couldn't help but look gloomy when she saw the robin emblem carved on the front of the luxurious carriage. The bright smile with a little cunning on her face instantly turned into boundless anger as if a storm was coming.

"Behind... it should be His Highness Joshua's carriage."

The middle-aged lady's expression was also somewhat ugly as she looked at the freight carriages that overturned after being pushed out of the road, and the small merchants who got out of the carriages and hurriedly picked up the goods, staring at the luxurious carriages with anger on their faces but dared not say a word.

Although she was also extremely dissatisfied with the other prince's behavior, after seeing the young woman's increasingly angry expression, she quickly spoke up to dissuade her:

"Your Highness Veronica, you are traveling privately today. Not only do you not have a guard of honor, you don't even have a guard.

If you leave now, not only will you disrupt the Duke of Lionheart's coronation ceremony, but if the rebels know you are here, there will definitely be a big mess!"

"Well...I know..."

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, and the lively and cheerful girl just now completely disappeared, returning to her usual solemn and majestic appearance.

After gazing at the luxurious carriage behind her once more, the young woman…or Princess Veronica retracted her gaze and calmly instructed:
"Drive the carriage off the road and let Joshua's carriage pass first. After the succession ceremony is completely over, have someone write a pamphlet about what happened today in the tone of those small merchants and give it to me. Try to make the content as tragic as possible."

The middle-aged lady was slightly startled when she heard this, and then said in confusion:

"Are you going to take the pamphlet to His Majesty to complain and ask him to restrain His Highness Joshua's behavior?"

"No, when we were fighting with the nobles for the treasury, my father owed Joshua's mother too much, so he doted on him a little too much. Even if he knew that he had done such a thing, he would only scold him verbally at most."

The princess shook her head and said calmly while looking at the luxurious carriage passing by at high speed:
"If they really want to solve the problem, they should give this pamphlet to the House of Commons and hand it to those MPs who have been finding fault with me, giving them the opportunity to make use of the issue.

No matter how I persuade him, it is useless. Only when the entire royal family is slapped in the face and a large part of their actual interests are cut off, will his father slap Joshua in the face and let him know what to do and what not to do. "

"Your Highness, you are really..."

After hearing the princess' words, the middle-aged lady couldn't help but chuckle, then looked at the luxurious carriage going away and shook her head:

"Given your Majesty's temper, His Highness Joshua will be in trouble this time. If you are forced by those congressmen to give up some things, His Highness Joshua will probably not be able to ride in a carriage for half a year."

Just getting slapped in the face and not being able to ride in a carriage for half a year is enough to make you complain?
After hearing the words of the middle-aged lady, the princess did not speak, but looked through the car window at the dozens of overturned carriages and the broken cargo boxes of various sizes on the side of the road.

It had just rained a little last night, and even on a carefully maintained road like Redwood Avenue, the roadside was still muddy and had puddles of varying sizes.

Among the goods transported by these small merchants, there were not only porcelain and lamps that were directly broken, but also coal, flour, spices and other things that could not come into contact with water.

The remaining things, such as velvet ribbons, used to decorate the inheritance ceremony, were stained by mud and water, so the Ryan family would not accept them. It could be said that the trip would have been in vain.

In order to protect itself, Charles Department Store had to sell goods at low prices for more than half a month. Small merchants had a very difficult life. This time, supplying goods for the Ryan family's succession ceremony was a rare opportunity for them. If I guessed correctly, many people's payments were probably on credit, and they might even have taken out loans, but now they were all overturned by Joshua's guards on the roadside.

If I let it go, most of the owners of these carriages would go bankrupt, and those few people with shabby clothes, crying while collecting goods, would soon appear in the slums of the capital...

"Forget it, I won't go to the inheritance ceremony."

Looking at the silk ribbons that fell into the mud and the merchants crying on the roadside, the princess shook her head helplessly and waved her hand in a somewhat disinterested manner:

"Let's go find Joshua's guards and ask them to pay the money first. Otherwise, some of these people might..."

"Make way! Make way!"

"Why is the truck on the highway? Get off now!"

"Push them all down! The Duke's carriage is behind us. The coronation ceremony will be delayed!"

Hearing the noise coming from behind again, the princess couldn't help but frown again, then she leaned out of the car window and looked back.

The new carriage, pulled by eight tall and strong Shire horses, almost completely filled the nearly ten-meter-wide road. Its luxury was even greater than Joshua's.

The sandalwood carriage carved with a golden-crowned lion emblem is not only decorated with gilded copper nails everywhere, but also has pieces of jewels embedded on the walls. Even the white steel wheels are embossed with prints that resemble animal feet, leaving lines like lion's footprints on the ground as it passes. Almost every detail has been done to the extreme within the regulations.

The Lionheart's car? Trouble...

Looking at the road that had become chaotic again, the princess couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

In order to avoid that bastard Joshua, most of the carriages in front had gone down from the road, and many of them had just barely made it back to the road. It would take at least twelve or thirteen minutes just to restore order, and there was no time to avoid him again.

If the new Duke of Lionheart wants to get to Ryan Manor within the normal time, he may have to learn from Joshua and forcibly overturn these carriages, which will probably dirty a lot of things again...

……

"Everyone stop!"

Just as the princess was hesitating whether to reveal her identity and go talk to the Duke of Lionheart to give these small merchants some time to move their carriages, a head suddenly popped out of the window of the carriage and stopped the guards who were about to lift the carriage.

"Why are you chasing people away? Isn't such a wide road enough... um..."

After looking at the half-occupied road ahead and estimating the width of the fancy carriage he was riding in, and finding that it was indeed not wide enough, Leon silently swallowed the second half of his sentence, then turned around and glared at the old man in fancy clothes next to him who was sweating profusely, and said with dissatisfaction:
"I've already told you there's no need to take a car. It won't take long to just walk there. But you guys are so busy that you're asking me to come back and walk again after I've already arrived... Look! It's blocked!"

Leon's words made him feel aggrieved, but he really couldn't do anything about it. The former Duke's old butler could only persuade him with a smile:
"My Lord Duke! Riding this 'Lionheart Chariot' into the manor is a tradition of our Ryan family and also a part of the ceremony of succession to the title. Please be patient for a while, just a little while!"

(End of this chapter)

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