I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 666 Camelia's Crisis (asking for monthly ticket)
"Annmarie, dear, what are you looking at?"

A soft voice suddenly came from behind Herio, scaring her so much that she turned around suddenly. She saw a beautiful girl wearing a long emerald green lace dress, a high bun, a pair of fox eyes, and smiling at her.

"Ah, Veronique, it's you." Herriot blinked subconsciously and said calmly, "You, didn't hear anything?"

"No." Veronique Legris smiled and shook her head, "What's wrong? Did I miss something?"

"No no, no, no," Herriot breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why didn't you go to the dinner?" Miss Legris said, looking up inadvertently and caught a glimpse of Camelia's back.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, and instantly changed her expression to one of concern. She took Heriot's arm and whispered:
"My dear, as a friend, I have to remind you that you should try to avoid that woman in the future."

Herriot immediately turned his head and said in disbelief:
"What are you talking about!"

Legris sighed:

"You have to face the reality, my dear. Look at her charming face and graceful waist. No man can resist her, including, ahem... Your Highness. And she is also protected by Miss Perna. Alas, I know that woman may have treated you harshly, but you really can't afford to offend her..."

Nobles loved to spread gossip, so almost everyone in the Palace of Versailles knew about the incident of the robbery of the true love charm in Notre Dame Cathedral at that time.

Herriot was like a cat whose tail was stepped on. He put his hands on his hips, his face flushed, and his voice became shrill:
"Why? She's just a lowly Moravian! I'm a noble Frank noble! She should be the one hiding from me! I'm not afraid of her, let her come! Let's see who can beat who!"

"Oh, dear, I'm sorry, I said the wrong thing! Please don't be angry." Miss Legris seemed to be frightened, her eyes slightly lowered, and she said tremblingly, "She is indeed just a vulgar country woman in front of you, but she can use her appearance and means to get you into trouble. Just like... the time at Notre Dame..."

Herriot was already trembling with excitement:
"This is Paris! Versailles is ours! We won't allow her to run wild!"

Legris hurriedly pulled her arm and said worriedly:
"Don't do this. If you offend her, you will only get hurt. I'm really worried about you!"

She glanced at Herriot's expression and continued to comfort him:

"Oh, if only she were dead. I think it would be best if God punished her by letting her fall into the water and drown, and go to hell sooner, otherwise you will probably have a hard time in the Palace of Versailles..."

"Shut up!" Herriot yelled without regard for etiquette, shook off her best friend's hand, picked up her skirt, and ran out of the cabin.

As the sun set, the breeze from the Seine blew across Herriot's face, but she felt like a knife stabbing herself.

Just then, she heard a girl's voice coming from the stairs:

"Oh, Mr. Ording, I actually forgot the yogurt sauce! It is the soul of the pigeon stewed with nuts. Please send the dish to the restaurant first, and I will go back to the warehouse to get the yogurt sauce."

Herriot was all too familiar with that voice.

It's that Austrian bitch!

Since the "Poloskafi" needed to use the hot water and high-temperature coal ash from the boiler, the kitchen was built separately on the side of the boiler room, and one had to pass through a deck to get to the warehouse in the stern cabin.

Immediately, Herriot saw the woman in the black and white dress appear not far away.

She quickly dodged and hid behind the cockpit, then stamped her feet in shame and anger:
"I-I'm not hiding from her!"

There was a sound of a door closing in the warehouse, and Camelia came over humming a song, holding a can of yogurt.

When she passed by Herriot's hiding place, the latter's mind suddenly popped up the words that Legris had just said, "It would be best if God punished her by letting her fall into the water and drown..."

Herrio felt suffocated, her bloodshot eyes widened and her eyeballs bulged out. She quickly scanned the deck - the crew were busy slowing down the ship, and there was no one else here.

Without thinking too much, Heriot took off his shoes and quietly approached Camelia from behind. When the latter reached the entrance of the stairs, which was the closest to the deck railing, she roared and slammed into her!

On the bow deck of the galley Seven Birds, Sorel leaned against the railing with a melancholy look on his face, muttering to the barrel in front of him:

"Kind sir, could you please return the money I bet on? There are a few poor people who are in urgent need of this money..."

"Ah! How is this possible?" She ruffled her hair in annoyance. "The game has already started for a day, how can the bets be refunded?
"But what are Mr. Hatki and the others going to do...Ah! It's all my fault, it's all my fault!"

Not long ago, she rescued a dozen poor people from a group of slave traders. In the past, she would just give them some travel expenses and let them go home.

However, most of the people trafficked this time were from the Far East, as well as five Indians from North America.

She first treated their illnesses, then bought boat tickets to Java for the nine Asians and entrusted her friends to send them back - if she let them board the ship by themselves, they would probably be robbed or even sold again before they passed the Cape of Good Hope.

Afterwards, she discovered to her embarrassment that she no longer had the money to send the Creek people back to North America.

So she took out three months' salary in advance - she had been working in the intelligence agency since the end of last year - and used her remaining savings to buy the "Seven Birds" to win the cargo ship race, a total of 400 francs. Because of the high stakes, she was qualified to board the ship to watch the competition.

If the Seven Birds wins, she will receive 880 francs.

But she never expected that the smoking boat that was ridiculed by people before the race would actually run so fast!

The captain of the "Seven Birds" changed rowers for the second time in Rouen, and with an unexpected breeze blowing on the Seine, he was able to barely see the back of the steamship again.

"Everyone, work harder! If we pass Le Havre, there will be a bonus of 10 francs for each person!"

The captain's hysterical roar reached her ears, and the "Seven Birds" suddenly jumped forward.

But Sorel knew that the Seven Birds had almost no chance of winning, and all his money was wasted. Not to mention sending Mr. Hatki and his men back to North America, even the food money for the second half of the month became a problem...

There was a puff of white smoke on the water ahead. Sorel looked over there curiously, but he didn't know that it was the "Boroskafi" releasing steam.

When the white mist dissipated, she suddenly saw two figures flashing on the deck of the steamship, and then one of them fell into the Seine from the side.

Sorel subconsciously grasped the hilt of the sword at his waist, and in the last bit of sunset light, he saw a pink women's wide-brimmed hat with feathers. The owner of the hat ignored the drowning man and turned around to go into the cabin.

Sorel was shocked and ran to the captain's room, shouting:
"Mr. Ossain, someone fell into the water!"

The captain ran out with a group of people:

"Where?"

"Who fell into the water?"

Sorel pointed to the "Boroskafi" in front of him and said anxiously:

"Over there! That's the ship!"

(End of this chapter)