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Chapter 19 Dialogue with the Times

Back at the Yekaterin Palace, George punched the sandbags alone for an entire hour, only stopping when he was exhausted.

George didn't ask Andre to be a sparring partner. He didn't want to practice now, but was venting.

Coming to this era, whether he was alone with Catherine or reading with her in the Hermitage, George felt like he was out of tune with this era.

George knows this is because he has not really integrated into this era.

assimilate into--

Easier said than done.

George didn't understand why Ekaterina still had such a deep relationship with Yaer even though she was forced into the palace.

George also didn't understand why Maria was so eager to drive George, mother and son away from the Winter Palace. Sooner or later, the Winter Palace would belong to him.

George also didn't understand why he gained the loyalty of Yeluoxin's family so easily.

I don’t even understand that both Ekaterina and Anna believe this.

Now George understands.

In the 19th century, there were 19th century operating rules.

Yekaterina and Ye Luoxin are both real people, not NPCs in the game. They have their own emotions, and their emotional lives. In this era, the emotional investment can be rewarded in time.

In the 21st century, science and technology are developed. If the standards of life are not high, people can maintain their lives without working too hard.

The requirements for social collaboration in the 19th century were more stringent than those in the 21st century.

In the 21st century, people don’t need to grow their own vegetables to eat, they don’t need to raise their own horses when traveling far away, they only need mobile phones for entertainment and social interaction, and they don’t even need to go out to work. Everything is highly commercialized.

In the 19th century, there was a greater reliance on groups, and individuals could not survive alone without the group.

Recognizing this, George began to integrate into this era.

"You will practice with the Duke next. You don't need to preserve your strength." Ye Luoxin felt a sense of accomplishment. For a whole hour, Ye Luoxin felt that she couldn't do it.

George's explosive power is not yet good, but his durability is quite good. Now George runs around the Yekaterin Palace every morning, the speed getting faster and faster, and the distance getting longer and longer.

The tailor was making sandbags to tie to his legs, because simply running could no longer satisfy George.

"What's going to happen to the Duke?" Dalia listened to the heavy breathing and worried about George's health.

"What will happen to the Duke? This is the only way for a man to grow up!" Ye Luoxin was not worried. George was a very self-controlled person, better than many adults.

At least Ye Luoxin had never seen a 9-year-old child with such strong self-control.

George is a super duke and doesn't need to work so hard at all.

At about the same age, Nicholas had already started smoking and drinking.

George was a teetotaler and kept cigarettes at arm's length.

The ballet is very beautiful, the actress is very beautiful, has a great figure, and has a better temperament. She is very popular with the upper class of St. Petersburg. The grand dukes are frequent visitors to the theater, so many famous dancers have become the confidante of the grand dukes. In many cases, there are more than one. .

The "more than one" here goes both ways, and the Grand Duke probably has more than one confidante.

Actresses don't hang from a tree either. George has never been there even once.

The dance that Nicholas and Georgie loved was very lively and there were many beautiful and lovely girls, but George had never attended it.

George didn't have much pursuit of material things. The clothes were prepared by Dalia every day. George would wear whatever Dalia prepared. He was never picky.

George did not have any bad hobbies in the worldly sense. Except for going to the Hermitage to read with him, George spent most of his time in the Yekaterin Palace, either reading or exercising. His life was as boring as a monk.

For the sake of George's physical and mental health, Ye Luoxin tried every means to give George fun.

"George, can you keep a dog in the Yekaterin Palace?" Peter is now George's little follower. As long as George does not go to the Winter Palace, Peter will be by George's side most of the time.

In addition to being George's sparring partner, Andre is also learning from Ye Luoxin how to become a qualified squire, or bodyguard.

After Ye Luoxin left the Guards, Andrei was expelled from the Guards. If he wanted to join the army, he could only join the local army. Starting from the bottom, this was a long and arduous road.

There are many benefits to following George. Now Andrei has become a formal staff member of the Yekaterin Palace as George's bodyguard. This starting point is higher than that of the Guards.

The salaries of the staff of the Yekaterin Palace are borne by the empire.

In addition to the normal salary, George will also pay Andre another salary, which is a private subsidy from George to Andre.

The feelings are mutual. Like Ye Luoxin, Andrei also decided to sell his life to George. The price depends on Andrei's ability.

If Andre's ability could only serve as a personal valet, then he could only get the salary of a bodyguard.

If Andre is qualified for the position of general, then George will not be stingy.

Now George is not in a position to appoint generals.

But if Andre is unable to do it when George is capable, it will be a tragedy.

So Andre works harder than George now, and George is the biggest opportunity in his life.

"You can raise it if you want, but you have to be responsible for disciplining it and not peeing anywhere." George didn't care. He had now begun to learn to hide his feelings.

George liked those two horses very much, but he didn't show it too obviously.

If it is obvious, then George's hobby will become George's weakness.

Therefore, George must restrain his emotions under any circumstances.

George also likes dogs. The more he interacts with people, the more he will like dogs.

George will also not take the initiative to raise him. The more affection he has, the more care he will have.

But if it's Peter's dog, George can still pet it in his spare time.

As soon as Ekaterina arrived in France, she wrote a letter to George. It can be clearly felt between the lines that Ekaterina missed George.

"Everything is normal in Yekaterin Palace. My daily running distance has increased to 6 kilometers. I am now 1.65 meters tall. Ye Luoxin said that I can already practice riding. The renovation of the shooting range was finally completed yesterday. It was my first time to shoot, and I learned how to maintain weapons with Ye Luoxin - Andrei also likes to play with guns, but his talent in shooting is far from that of riding and swordsmanship. I have six bullets He shot 40 rings, and the gun hit the target. Andre only shot seven rings, and two shots missed the target——"

George wrote back to Ekaterina, detailing everything, and he was trying to get along with Ekaterina in this way.

Not bad, just writing a letter would not be so embarrassing. George simply regarded Ekaterina as a distant pen pal, and communicated with Ekaterina and this era through correspondence.

(End of this chapter)