The Romantic Trials Of A Transmigrated Empress

Chapter 285: A nut revolution.

Sigrid took another bite into the blue berry and listened with relish.

Duke Thorin took a sip of wine, exhaled and continued, "One day, the prince...oh sorry...he was no longer the

prince because the title was stripped from him when he was cast out of the royal family, You see, Alexander did

not sleep with just any other ordinary woman, he slept with the wife of the crown prince.

She got pregnant and had a son. As it turned out the boy was Alexander's child. When his brother Odin found out

he accused Alexander of planning to usurp the throne. From what | heard, the grand plan was to kill off Odin and

have Alexander's son named the new crown prince and next emperor."

"Wow...what a great plan. | like this Alexander already." Sigrid gushed.

"Of course you do." Roland rolled his eyes. His wife had a liking for the darker things in life.

"Shhh!" Sigrid kicked him on the ankle.

Roland groaned in a bass and his face twisted as his body registered the pain form the kick but he made no

attempt to take his foot away.

This all entertained the servants very much. They were also keenly listening to the story of Alexander Ridley.

Jesting for one was very impressed with Alexander's debauchery. It took guts and a lack of morals to sleep with

your own brother's wife and get her pregnant deliberately.

"What happened to the crown princess?"

"Of course she died." Roland spoke up. "Any woman from a royal family that has an affair must be put to death,

and rightfully so. In other families, this is a simple matter and divorce can settle it but for a royal family, it is the

kind of thing that results in wars over who gets to be emperor. The woman and the child must both be killed."

Sigrid bit into the blue berry. Her bite was smaller this tround. She hoped that there would be no more

letters from the knight she had no memory of or else she might be accused of having an affair and her baby

would die with her.

"Will you people stop interrupting me." Duke Thorin exploded.

"Apologies grandfather." Sigrid said slowly.

"Mine too." Roland added.

Duke Thorin looked at Elarin.

Elarin was flabbergasted. "I did not say a word, why do | have to apologize?"

"Do you want to hear the story or not?" he asked.

Elarin sighed. "I apologize." she said with sarcasm.

Satisfied, the duke continued with his story. "So, the secret to Alexander's..."

"Was the child killed?" Sigrid jumped in.

Duke Thorin stood up in a huff. "You do not deserve my story, | am done."

Roland and Elarin gave Sigrid disbelieving looks meanwhile. Why? Why? Why do this? Their eyes asked.

Chuckling, with her shoulders dancing, Sigrid continued nibbled on the remaining half of the blue berry. She

knew her grandfather, the man would not be satisfied if he left the story unfinished. She was right because he

sat down again with a sullen look.

"I am giving you one last chance Sigrid."

"Thank you grandpa." She answered coquettishly like a spoiled princess.

Duke Thorin cleared his throat, and he started his tale again from where he had stopped. "Desperate for survival,

Alexander who was a very well trained knight formed his own group of outlaws that would loot food from the

soldiers. Sof the food would be distributed to the commoners which earned Alexander's group good will and

famong them.

The tactic earned them the protection of the people. They could not rely on the emperor but they could rely on

the outcast prince.

He used his knowledge to teach the people how to cultivate flowers that are used as medicinal herbs like

moonlace, shadowthorn, emberpetals, sunflowers, beetroot and even roses and oranges. Within a year, the

North turned into the biggest region in the empire when it cto provision of those things.

The commoners earned smoney and it eased their lives a little. They were not wealthy but every family was

guaranteed at least one or two meals a day."

He paused and took a sip of water

and then a sip of wine. After clearing

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his throat, he continued, "He untied all

the outlaws under him gee

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made other nobles in the region

uncomfortable. They sent their

servants to secretly burn down the

fields and threaten anyone cultivating

flowers. They even started cultivating

these flowers themselves and

saturated the market to the point of

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Alexander did not let that discourage him. Instead, he risked his life by going into The Mystic grove to find

something else that the people could use to make a living and he found a nut." He whispered the word out,

drawling on as if it was magical.

"A nut." Sigrid repeated after him.

He nodded. "That's right, a nut. To be specific an Embernut."

Everyone in the room had tasted embernuts before. They were smoky with a fiery crunch. They could be eaten

boiled, roasted, fried or pounded and turned into soup. Sigrid had even asked Mauve to turn them into peanut

butter and the taste did not disappoint.

He started growing them secretly and taught a few trusted commoners how to cultivate them. They pretended

that they were still growing flowers but secretly grew nuts instead. They mixed nuts in with flowers.

One day, the embernuts flooded the

market and they were what Sigrid

likes to call a hit. ARE Asis

People increased ihe growth, they

even found a mage that sped up

cultivation to a fortnight. The

commoners grew rich and

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Alexander's influence grew stronger.

This again angered the nobles. They stormed into his fief and onto his nut fields, demanding control. But he

faced them without fear and told them to go into the Mystic grove and do what he had done. You see, he had

risked his life to find the nut.

If he was not afraid to be killed by the

beasts in the forest, he was not afraid

to face the nobles. He told them that

even if they ruine hs @t fields! he

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would jUSt@nd something else to

grow and then another and another.

Eventually his father the emperor

would take notice and the nobles that

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"Letguess, the nobles backed down." Roland said.

The duke nodded. "Outcast or not Alexander was of noble blood. The outcast today could turn out to be the

crown prince tomorrow. When it comes to royal families things are always changing."

The statement was simple and yet heavy at the stime. It was of the duke was speaking to them directly,

telling them to remember this always.