Since the town of Earlsferry was southwest of the landing site, there was still a long distance between the two sites, and the sheriff and the two yomen who used the town were completely unaware that the enemy had come ashore. For them, figuring out who is shelling the town on the sea is the most important thing.

However, it was night, and no shipowner was willing to risk the sinking of the ship to go out to sea to find out about the enemy. The sheriff and the two yomen had no choice but to scrape together a sum of money and offer a reward to a small fishing boat or merchant ship that agreed to go to sea to find out about the enemy's ships. Using a large amount of money as a means of encouragement can still have the effect of inducing people to be effective.

After a long time after Captain Hawkins had stopped shelling the coastal towns, someone finally agreed to risk his death to go to sea tonight. Then, a small fishing boat moored at the pier southwest of town quietly left the pier and sailed out of the bay. However, the outcome of the voyage was both expected and unexpected by the town sheriff and Yoman. Until sunrise that day, not a single townsman saw the small fishing boats that had ventured to the sea return to the pier intact.

Just as the sheriff and Yoman offer a bounty, Isabel and her landing team, hiding in the other side of town, begin an improvised mission to search for the palace guard. After searching for almost half a night, several sailors found the guard, Sir Andrew, on a beach about half a mile from the landing site. It is ridiculous that the "janitor" of the Scottish royal palace is still sleeping on the beach.

After Isabel had the guards escorted back to the Nemesis on the ferry, it was about an hour before sunrise. Having lost her best sneak attack plane, she had to camp and rest in an ancient forest on the east side of the town along a field trail to wait for the second night.

After sunrise the next day, the sheriff and Yoman did not wait for the small fishing boat to return to port. The panic caused by the "invasion war" prompted the sheriff to write two letters to Queen Mary's regent and the queen mother, and sent several attendants to carry the letters across the Forth of Forth on a merchant ship and sail quickly to the nearest port to Edinburgh Castle.

The attendants took their horses on the coastline of North Berwick, 25 miles northeast of the city of Edinburgh, south of Forth Bay. From the 19th century until the modern era, it has been a famous resort) and after going ashore, it is a non-stop three-hour ride to Edinburgh Castle, where the royal court is located.

The Queen's regents, Count Arun II, and Queen Mother Guise, who received the letter from the sheriff, were puzzled by the shelling of the town of Earlsferry instead. The Regent couldn't figure out who would bombard the borough, so he went to the court at Edinburgh Castle to meet the Queen Mother again.

The Queen Mother had long consulted with her daughter, Queen Mary, the regent, and then paced in her parlor to think. As the regent paced slowly, he whispered, "Your Majesty, the sheriff said in his letter that the shelling did not last long, and it seems that only one warship was firing at the town. So I think it's probably just one thing... The affairs of pirate plunder. ”

Dignified, beautiful and caring for the people of the whole of Scotland with the love of a mother, the Queen Mother Guise, who is only 29 years old this year, glanced at the regent reservedly, "Well, pirates plundering coastal towns? Such a description is more in line with the shelling that took place last night. ”

Count Aaron, who was walking slowly with his hands behind his back, nodded, "If Henry VIII's warships had attacked the town, perhaps the town would have been occupied by the English before sunrise." ”

"It's a pity that the two best warships that Your Majesty left me have also been captured by Henry VIII." Queen Mother Guise said with regret, and then looked at the regent, "There are no good ships to deal with pirates, it's nothing. Your Excellency, you know what I am most worried about at the moment. ”

The regent smiled lightly, "Your Majesty, the place where the Queen lives is known only to very few members of the royal family, including you. Even the court ministers, no one knew where the queen was. ”

The Queen Mother sighed, "I just hope that the Queen can grow up soon." When the time comes, send her to the court of France, so that she can escape the pursuit of the heretical king who lives in the south. ”

Before the Anglo-Soviet War that broke out in late 1542, the regent, Count Aaron II, was a Protestant and a member of the pro-English aristocracy. And, in July 1543, he participated in the negotiation of the marriage of Queen Mary to the future Edward VI of England. However, on March 18, before July, Sir George Douglas told the Ambassador of England. The intention was obvious, and the whole of Scotland, including most of the aristocracy and all the Catholic clergy, would oppose the marriage.

Later, after several secret meetings with the cardinals, the isolated Count II of Aaron suddenly became a Catholic and a member of the Francophile. Agreeing to the wedding of Queen Mary to Francis II of France, which also led directly to the outbreak of the Anglo-Soviet War over Queen Mary. Of course, the Count of Aaron received great benefits from his conversion to Francophilia - the dukedom and ownership of the Duke of Chattello (a French title of nobility), and was awarded the Order of St. Michael (the highest knighthood in France).

To sum up, the bribes of the King of England to the Scottish nobility were far less than those of the King of France. The greedy Comte de Arrun II naturally stood within the line of the "Old League" and accepted the benefits offered to him by the King of France, thus rejecting Henry VIII's request. In any case, as long as Scotland does not become a Protestant kingdom, it will not be a hassle to have a French king far away in Europe rule Scotland.

However, this does not mean that Count Aaron will be a knight's squire forever following the ass of the French. In the subconscious mind of the Earl of Aaron, it had nothing to do with him whether the English or the French came to rule Scotland. Whoever offered the highest price would sell Queen Mary to whomever she wanted.

During the reign of Elizabeth I, the Earl of Allen also tried to persuade the Scottish Parliament to support a plan to marry his son to Elizabeth I. Later, after the death of King Francis II of France in 1560, he tried to arrange for his son to marry the young widowed Queen Mary of Scots.

Eventually, the Earl of Aaron, who was adept at changing his stance with the situation, died in a Scottish prison in 1575.