The Princess's Gambit Episode 9

A taste of your own medicine

The chancellor is very at home with farm chores. He is assisting the granny by getting her a good supply of firewood and tilling the soil for her. In conversation, he and Princess discover it’s the wicked chancellor that has absconded with their land and forced the men to leave their families to earn money to send home. The two men signing them up seemed to be the two the chancellor’s sister tried to apprehend for women trafficking. The little girl takes them to town under pretense of helping them find a carriage, but then alters her plan to have them ambushed. She wants to save the princess, but exchange the chancellor for her brother. The chancellor warns the princess of interfering in the fates of others and that the little girl could be a danger to her later. The princess is unaware that the chancellor found her half map and is trying to figure out the machinations the princess is involved in and how they will work against him. I also hope he noted that the half he saw was half of what he received so her details were accurate. They are each getting a sense of the other’s past hardships that keep them either guarded in his case or over protective in hers. The one thing they do agree on is something is very wrong about this settlement. Is the chancellor making himself seem guilty as charged because he is responsible? Or is someone framing him so that his enemies will be from all quarters if he tries to correct things? The 4th Prince and sister are having their own adventure. It is funny that they end up at same place. He taught his sister well with land navigation. The water fight in the kitchen area is fun. The chancellor refused to participate and accepts his own taste of medicine with a grumpy retreat calling them childish. So the question I have is are the counterfeit money and human trafficking related or two separate rings of criminals with broad collateral damage? The 4th prince seems to be one that would listen best, but also the weakest to actually do anything to help them. I was hoping the chancellor’s aide and the bodyguard would have been the two to find them. They are far more useful in a fight.

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