I Am Louis XIV

   Chapter 372 The Scales in People's Hearts

  The Grand Princess heard the maids say that when Eva came out of Lord Ferdinand's room in the morning, she still couldn't believe it.

Eva is a beautiful girl, but her beauty is like her birthplace, with an indelible roughness and savagery, Versailles even look down on Parisians, and Parisians despise all the provinces People, a woman from a small fishing village, was rewarded by the king and became the maid of the great county master. How could they be reconciled when compared to the daughter of an earl and a daughter of a viscount.

However, although Eva has always mocked herself and said that she is a silly girl who regards love as her life, she has been strong since childhood and lived like a boy. With the connivance of her father and uncle, she can use swords, muskets, and Reading the Bible in Latin can also calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within 100 - don't laugh, when Louis XIV had not spread the primary education schools all over France, this level of education was not for everyone. arrived. The interesting thing is that her elders are mostly pirates and swindlers who can't see the light. Their knowledge is far better than the common kind of small nobles. They didn't say, what's the use of a privateer's daughter learning these things. Woolen cloth? It didn't say that a girl should not play with knives and guns, and be taught by priests with boys...

The biggest failure of "Jack" is that he said that he had given up his noble surname and innate status. He always remembered that he was the son of a British admiral, and after he became a nobleman, in order to gain Dunkel Engraving the trust of people, marrying Eva, but not understanding her desires, he regards her as a decoration - if he is willing to ask more, even a little curious about the daggers and muskets that Eva keeps in the box, he will not. would deal so rudely with his wife.

"I thought you would be angry." The Grand County Master raised his hand and asked the maids to tie ribbons to their sleeves. He asked curiously, not to mention that they were all girls like flowers and birds. The class in the room is very distinct, for example, the lady who helped her put on the long underwear is definitely the one with the highest status in the room, and the one who wears the ribbon is another identity. Although Eva is her maid, at most she can only Hand me a comb or something.

Ferdinand is the eldest son of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, the destined future Grand Duke, and his status is completely worth betting on him by the ladies to see who will come out on top first—although unmarried women in this kind of competition must be Those who were excluded, but the Grand Princess also had a lady serving her. When she said this, a lady covered her lips and laughed.

Of course, the scheming between the ladies is no less than that of their husbands at court, but since there are no fools in Versailles, they will of course weigh the pros and cons—contrary to what one might think, for an abrupt The outsiders, from the king's sudden promotion to the newly married queen, will find that the people in the court are not as harsh and vicious as the legend, but this is not out of kindness, but they are tasting the freshness brought by the former. After all, there is no need to say how boring these people who do not have to work to survive, so they will hardly be attacked explicitly until the novelty wears off.

Eva is just at this stage, and her own courage - how did she escape from the pursuit of the British, how did she send her husband to the gallows, and how did she "accidentally" lose the fetus in her womb The story of her has long been spread in Versailles; and her straightforward character, which is rarely seen in Versailles, with light brown skin, thick black hair, and big sparkling eyes, also won her a lot of points (Versailles). Although people respect snow-white skin, this is only for nobles, such as Eva, who has a clear identity and origin, who wants to hide their origin by applying grease and powder, it will make people laugh); she is not too strong His competitive spirit and ambition to win a husband for himself in the court are like a...

"A tourist who came to visit." A lady said, the maids nodded, jealousy and slander also need strength and time, why should they be angry for a foreigner who may leave Versailles in a few days, and here If it wasn't any of them who won the chase, they were quite satisfied, and Eva was at least a French.

   "I just thought..." The Grand Princess sighed.

   "The king has this idea," said the lady who described Eva as a tourist, "but this lady doesn't seem to have that idea."

   This is also a reason, even if it is a criminal, as long as he is favored by the Sun King, he can get rid of all the charges, soar to the top, be prominent, and have infinite glory.

   Just look at Mrs. Milady.

  Eva is also a lady, and her future is even more unpredictable. After all, their king has never been free to choose a royal wife.

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"That's because I've already tried marriage once." Eva said to the princess: "I once fantasized about the sweetness of love and marriage, but, you know, it's like a child eating her heart. something, only to be disappointed to find that it wasn't so good."

   "That's because you unfortunately met a shameless spy," said the Grand Princess.

"Not all," Eva tapped the ground with her toes: "I chose him because I wanted to try a different life than my mother, my grandmother, and even my great-grandmother, whose husbands were privateer owners, and they As soon as they leave home, it is for several months, even a year or two, or even a few years. When they don't come back, they seem to be dead. The lingering smell of blood is all of them."

"So," she went on, "when I saw 'Jack', of course, I knew he was an Englishman, and I knew he had left the army and raised sheep and tended fields around our village for a living, that When he looked like a farmer, I thought maybe I could be a farmer's wife because the boys around me were either sailors or soldiers."

   "I'm trying to understand," said the Grand Princess, "you mean you don't really love him, do you?"

"How is it possible, even if it is a farmer, there are many farmers around Dunkirk, and he is an Englishman," Eva said with a smile: "I married him with a burning heart, he told I said that he wanted to have a peaceful second half of his life, have many children with me, and be buried in Dunkirk, and I believed it at that time."

The Grand Princess took her hand, Eva looked at her: "Thank you," she said: "But don't comfort me, look me in the eyes, Your Highness, when he wants to kill me, my anger is gone More than my love for him, when I know he is a spy, my hatred for him surpasses the nature of a mother." She took the hand of the Grand Princess and placed it on her belly, her eyes blazing with brilliance: "He thought that using the noble's surname and property would allow me to keep a child, but he was wrong, the enemy's child is also my enemy, how can I let him grow up eating my blood? Even if it violates the canon law , I will cut everything that has to do with him too—the pain and hatred that grows out of love may not do it, but the disgust that grows out of my blood and family can."

Her father, grandfather, and many people around her were privateer captains and crews. In the sea, privateers were pirate ships, and as the ancestors of pirates, the British and the French had always been enemies. If 'Jack' was just a A retired soldier of the New Model Army is just a farmer. Eva will not be determined to that extent, but because he has called out his identity, it is impossible for his children to continue to live.

   "But that's your child too." The Grand Princess couldn't help asking.

"Because it is my child, Your Highness, the child is the property of the mother," Eva said grimly, she also knew that the grand county master might enter into a marriage contract with the king of the Spaniards, and as a Dunkirk, she also disapproved Yes, but there are too many things involved, she's not a smart person, but she's not stupid, and she knows that these things are not within her reach. "And," she still couldn't help saying: "If I stay Child, I will never let him know his background, and he has the slightest connection with his father, the child should belong to the mother, because he is separated from our body." She approached the big county master, and she was very concerned about this and her The noble girl who has always cared and loved, Eva felt that she could say one or two more words: "Any man can be the father of a child, but their mother will always be only us."

After saying this, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath, she could feel the hand of the Grand Princess clenched, "But here, I still ask the Virgin Mary to bless us, Your Highness, I hope we You still have the power to make choices.”

   "May the Virgin Mary bless us," said the grand county master.

"If," Eva suddenly got a little closer, almost to the point of being rude, she leaned into the ear of the Grand Princess and said, "If things really turn out that we don't want to see, Your Highness, I am willing to Leave France with you."

  The Grand Princess widened her eyes.

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Grand County mainly thanked Eva for her comfort, and even she felt that if she really wanted to marry into Spain, to a country that was hostile to France, she might really bring Eva, Eva was a warrior , other ladies may not know, she does.

What she didn't tell Eva was that she wasn't very scared, really, a few years ago she heard that she was going to be married to Carlos II, a crippled fool with a short life, she was like a sacrifice The sacrifice of Taiwan only knows how to cry and tremble, and she can't think of what she should do. If her father and uncle hadn't discovered this and let her go to class with the eldest princess - say it's a class, it's better to say it's a pure flower bud. Possessing the poison of politicians - as a matter of fact, if the "teachers" who teach them have the opportunity to marry into another royal family, they will probably be ecstatic, because the queen, the crown princess may be the closest to the peak of power They are outsiders and change to other people, unless they encounter a tolerant king like Louis XIV, but their beliefs, background and connections are enough for them to run their business for more than ten years...

Just like a ignorant young child who only needs to cry and run away when he encounters a wolf, a strong hunter will be very happy when he sees a wolf, and the current grand county master is not afraid to face the future The mission - she may be married to Carlos II, the ugliness and deformity of Carlos II is still there, it has not disappeared, but for her now, it is no longer an important thing.

She even heard what Eva meant, this brave, of course, can also be said to be a vicious lady, willing to go to Spain as her handmaiden, obviously with the heart of being Judith's handmaiden (Note 1) Go, she even hinted that the Grand County Lord, if things really got to the point of irreversibility, the Grand County Lord could imitate the former French princess, the wife of King Edward II of England (Note 2), who killed the king. thing.

Thinking of this, the big princess is both horrified and wanting to laugh. If she really wants to marry to Spain, perhaps Eva is the best girl compared to the impeccable manners and conversations around her. choose.

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   There is an update in this chapter today, please note that the update is in this chapter, and the update time is about 8:00 to 9:00 pm.

Because there have been relatives and relatives coming to entertain these two days, the update time is a bit unstable, sorry, but I promised that there will be twenty-five chapters added this month, so there will definitely be twenty-five chapters added, and the fish will never put pigeons clatter! Remind again, Jiageng is not a new chapter, it's Jiageng behind the previous article!

  Note 1;

Judith, a Jewish lady, bravely sneaked into the enemy camp when the Assyrian army surrounded the Jewish city of Bethuria, lured the Assyrian general Holofernes, got him drunk and beheaded, and finally rescued her own. city ​​and people. In the painter's pen, the maids around Judith often occupy a very important position and are indispensable helpers of Judith. They have the same courage and perseverance as Judith.

  In the Easter Egg chapter, I posted an oil painting with Judith as the theme. If you are interested, you can go and see it. This is my favorite oil painting.

Note 2: The she-wolf of France, Princess Isabella, the wife of King Edward II of England, because Edward II was a bit quirky and even condoned his concubine teasing and hurting him and Isabella's son, Isabella Raju and his lover (yes, she had) forced the palace to seize power, and a few months later, Edward II was killed in captivity - well, one thing has to be said, in folklore, this love Lanyan The king who didn't love Hongyan and Jiangshan was stabbed to death by a red-hot iron drill. The author has already described the piercing torture before. It is said that the residents nearby heard the horrific mourning...

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