Chapter 1088

"Toot..."

Following the loud and long whistle, two sets of giant winches emitting white steam exerted force together, opening the night gates of the capital's canal. Dozens of cargo ships from the outer river sailed into the capital's port along with the morning glow on the horizon.

And when the sun broke through the morning glow and leaped off the ground, completely dispelling the remaining dark night sky with its unstoppable radiance, the capital, which had slept for a night under the corpses of a million nightmares, finally woke up bit by bit.

"Mm..."

As the sunlight crossed the tower bridge over the canal, passed over the spire of the clock tower, and drilled into the window of the palace, the woman lying on the desk trembled slightly, gently pulled out of dreamland by the warm sunlight.

Did I... fall asleep?

The Princess, who had woken up from her dream, stretched her somewhat stiff body, then sat on the large chair with her knees hugged, looking at the desk in front of her in a daze.

She remembered that before nightfall last night, she had moved all the execution documents for tax reform, the proposal to expand the voting power of citizens, and the selection order for officers at the colonel and sergeant levels of the military department back to her bedroom, preparing to fight through the night.

But just as she had ticked off the stall tax for small handicraftsmen and picked up her pen to write two refutation opinions, an inexplicable drowsiness suddenly rushed into her mind, and then she didn't know anything else...

Um... or maybe she didn't know nothing at all.

After rubbing her somewhat numb cheeks, thinking of the strange dream she had after falling asleep last night, the Princess couldn't help but curl her lips slightly.

In the dream, she had approved all the documents, and then at the parliament meeting a few days later, her words were like knives, wounding people with every word, scolding the Minister of Finance until he fainted on the spot, directly handing over the Ministry of Finance.

Then she took the opportunity to win over the parliament, settled the old nobles who wanted to cause trouble, grabbed all seventeen major departments of the Kingdom in one go, and began to carry out reforms with great vigor.

Then, the Kingdom slowly became strong, and she in the dream also inherited the throne, married Joshua to the other side of the sea to marry a mother monkey, made Leon a Prince of the Blood, and gave birth to a whole football team... cough... in short, it was a pretty good dream.

After taking a sip of the cold coffee, the Princess, in a good mood, got up and left her seat, picked up her coffee cup and walked to the window of the bedroom, actively catching the sunlight spilling into the window.

Although she accidentally fell asleep and didn't handle those documents in time, the result seemed not bad. For her, who had been troubled by nightmares for many years, this kind of dream, which was so relaxed that it was even a bit absurd, was a very rare experience.

"Princess Veronica!"

Just as the Princess was bathing in the warm morning sun, enjoying her rare leisure time, the bedroom door was suddenly knocked, and the somewhat panicked voice of the night-duty lady-in-waiting came from outside.

"I am Lily, who was on duty last night. I'm sorry, Princess, I... I seem to have fallen asleep as soon as night fell yesterday..."

"It's okay."

After drinking the bitter black coffee in the cup, Princess Veronica put down the cup and stretched, saying calmly:

"I also went to sleep very early last night. If there is anything to do, I will call you to wake up. But remember, next time it's your turn to be on night duty, pay attention to rest more during the day."

"Thank you, Princess, I will remember."

Hearing that she had not delayed the Princess's affairs, the lady-in-waiting outside the door couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and then reported eagerly:

"Princess, according to the original schedule, after breakfast time, you will meet the President of the Capital Chamber of Commerce. If you can finish talking within two hours, you will meet several new parliamentarians recently elected from the constituencies later. After lunch, there is the envoy from the Black Forest Kingdom... Do you need me to call a maid to help you wash up?"

"..."

It's a pity, a rare moment of leisure... But the business at hand is urgent. The parliament will be convened again in a few days, and now is not the time for her to enjoy leisure.

After listening to the lady-in-waiting's inquiry, which was full of pressure, the Princess couldn't help but sigh softly, then reached out and rubbed her eyebrows and said:

"A little later... What about the afternoon? How is the afternoon schedule arranged? What is the earliest time in the afternoon that can be cleared?" "This... I'm afraid the afternoon won't work."

The lady-in-waiting outside the door reminded cautiously:

"Princess, your schedule today is relatively tight, arranged until eight o'clock in the evening, and even dinner time has to be pushed to after nine-thirty... But if you really need a gap, I can try to rearrange it for you and postpone the meeting with the Minister of National Defense to tomorrow afternoon."

Postpone to tomorrow afternoon... Then tomorrow afternoon's affairs will have to be pushed back again, right?

Moreover, the selection of military officers is not easy to drag on. After all, Leon has always wanted to cancel the engagement with her. To be on the safe side, it is best to finish everything that can be done while this marriage is still stable, so as not to cause any more twists and turns...

"Forget it, no need to change, just arrange it according to the original schedule!"

After weighing the importance of the matter, Princess Veronica frowned and thought for a moment, then ordered:

"In this way, don't eat dinner today, and leave the time after nine o'clock for me."

"Princess?"

Hearing the Princess's words, the lady-in-waiting outside the door was startled, and then suggested with a worried look:

"I'd better rearrange the time for you. Your stomach illness has never been cured, it's really not suitable..."

"You misunderstood."

After interrupting the lady-in-waiting's words, the Princess smiled and said:

"I'm not planning not to eat dinner, I'm just not going back to the palace. You go and invite Li... invite the Lionheart Duke for me, and say that I want to have dinner with him."

"It's best if he decides the location. If he has no opinion, then just pick one of the two restaurants I often go to, one with more empty seats, and a regular private room by the river."

"Okay, then I'll go arrange it!"

"Go."

After the lady-in-waiting left as ordered, the Princess sat back at the table and continued to work at her desk. On the shelf behind her, a tin doll with half its cheek broken quietly blinked its emerald glass eyes.

East rises and west sets, sun rises and sun falls.

The sun, which was magnificent in the morning, circled in the misty sky of the capital, and then fell below the ground again.

Immediately after, the towering street lamps by the street lit up one after another, scorching a line of light into the dark night. A plain carriage without any markings passed through the night curtain cut by the street lamps, and finally stopped in front of a restaurant on Taole Street in the Canal District.

"Duke, we have arrived."

After actively leaning over to open the carriage door, the lady-in-waiting with short chestnut hair smiled at Leon:

"You can go directly to private room No. 7. Princess Veronica and the Prime Minister's meeting has just ended, and she will be here in fifteen minutes at most. Please wait a moment."

(End of chapter)