I Am Louis XIV

The princess heard the maids say that when Eva walked 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 the place where she was born, with an indelible roughness and savagery. The Versailles people even look down on the Parisians, and the Parisians despise all the provinces. People, a woman from a small fishing village suddenly became the maid of a great princess under the praise of the king. She was compared with the daughter of an earl and the daughter of a viscount. How could they be willing to do so.

However, although Eva has always laughed at herself and said that she is a silly girl who regards love as her life, she has been strong since she was a child and lived like a boy. With the connivance of her father and uncle, she can use swords and muskets, and can You can recite the Bible in Latin, and you can also calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within a hundred - don't laugh, before Louis XIV spread primary education schools to all parts of France, this level of education was not available to everyone. have witnessed. What's interesting is that most of her elders are pirates and people who can't see the light of the stolen goods. Their knowledge is far better than the common little nobles. They didn't say what the use of a privateer ship owner's daughter is to learn these things. Woolen cloth? Nor does it 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 his inherent status. He always kept in mind that he was the son of a British admiral and a nobleman. In order to obtain Dunkel He married Eva with deep trust, but did not understand her desires. He regarded her as a decoration-if he was willing to ask more questions, or even be curious about the daggers and muskets Eva put in the box, he would Wouldn't handle his wife so roughly.

"I thought you would be angry." The princess asked curiously as she raised her hand and asked the maids to tie ribbons on their sleeves. Although they were all girls like flowers and birds, among them The class in the room is very clear. For example, the lady who helps her put on her long underwear is definitely the one with the highest status in the room, and the one who ties the ribbon has another status. Although Eva is her maid, she can only Hand me a comb or something.

Ferdinand is the eldest son of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and is destined to be the future Grand Duke. His identity is completely worthy of the ladies betting on him to see who comes out on top first - although unmarried women in this kind of competition are definitely She had to be excluded, but the princess was also served by a lady. When she said this, a lady covered her lips and laughed.

Of course, the strife and calculations between noble ladies are no less than what their husbands do at court, but since there are no stupid people in Versailles, of course they will also weigh the pros and cons - unlike what people imagine, for a The sudden outsiders, from the new nobles suddenly promoted by the king to the queen who marries in, will find that the people in the palace are not as harsh and vicious as the legend says, but this is not out of good intentions, but because they are tasting the benefits brought by the former. Novelty, after all, it goes without saying how boring these people who do not have to work on their own to survive are, so they will hardly be attacked explicitly before the novelty wears off.

Eva happens to be at this stage, and her own courage - how she escaped from the British pursuit, how she sent her husband to the gallows, and how she "accidentally" lost her baby The matter of the fetus had long been spread in Versailles; as well as her straightforward character, which was rarely seen among Versailles people, her light brown skin, thick black hair, and big shining eyes also won her a lot of points ( Although the people of Versailles admire snow-white skin, this is only for nobles. People like Eva who have clearly identified their origins will make people laugh if they want to cover up their origins by applying makeup); she is not too overly The strong competitive spirit and the ambition to win a husband for herself in the court are actually like a...

"A tourist here." A lady said this, and the maids nodded one after another. Jealousy and slander also require strength and time. Why should they be angry about an outsider who may leave Versailles in a few days, and here. They were quite satisfied that no one of them had won the chase, and Eva was at least French.

"I just thought..." the princess sighed.

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

This is also one of the reasons why, even a criminal, as long as he gets the favor of the Sun King, he can still get rid of all the crimes, rise to the top, become famous and have unlimited glory.

Just look at Lady Milady.

Eva is also a lady, and her future is even more unpredictable. After all, their king has always done whatever he wants in choosing his royal wife.

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

"That's because you unfortunately encountered a shameless spy." The princess said.

"Not entirely," Eva tapped her toes on the ground: "I chose him because I wanted to try a different life from my mother, grandmother, and even great-grandmother, whose husbands were all privateers. As soon as they leave home, it lasts for several months, even one or two years, sometimes several years. When they don't come back, it's like they are dead. When they come back, in my impression, they have wet, salty clothes and... The lingering smell of blood is all they have.”

"So," she continued: "When I saw 'Jack', of course, I knew that he was an Englishman and that he had left the army and made a living raising sheep and tending fields near our village. That He looked like a farmer at the time, and 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," the princess said, "are you saying that you don't really love him?"

"How is that possible? Even if he is a farmer, there are many farmers around Dunkirk. He is also an Englishman," Eva said with a smile: "I married him with a warm heart," he told I said that he hoped to have a peaceful rest of his life, have many children with me, and be buried on the land of Dunkirk, and I believed him at that time.”

The princess held her hand, and Eva looked at her: "Thank you," she said: "But there is no need to comfort me, look at my eyes, Your Highness, when he wanted to kill me, my anger was More than my love for him, when I found out he was a spy, my hatred for him surpassed a mother's nature." She took the eldest princess's hand and placed it on her belly, with a bright light in her eyes: "He thought that using a noble surname and property would allow me to keep a child, but he was wrong. The child of my enemy is also my enemy. How could I let him grow up eating my blood? Even if it is against church law. , I also want to cut off everything related to him - the pain and hatred bred in love may not be able to do it, but the disgust bred from my blood and family can."

Her father, grandfather, and many people around her were privateer captains and crew members. On the sea, privateers were pirate ships. As the ancestors of pirates, the British and the French had always been sworn enemies. If 'Jack' was just a The retired soldier of the New Model Army was just a farmer. Eva would not be determined to that extent yet, but just because he called out his identity, it was impossible for his children to continue to live.

"But that's your child too." The princess couldn't help but ask.

"Just because it is my child, Your Highness, the child is the property of the mother," Eva said coldly. She also knew that the eldest princess might enter into a marriage contract with the Spanish king. As a Dunkirk native, she also disapproved of it. But it involves too many things. She is not a smart person, but she is not stupid either. She knows that these things are not within her reach. "And," she couldn't help but say, "if I stay The child, I will never let him know that his life experience has even the slightest connection with his father. The child should belong to the mother, because he is separated from our body." She approached the princess and asked about this to her. As a noble daughter who has always cared for and loved her very much, Eva felt that she could say a few 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 princess's hand tightening, "But here, I still ask the Virgin Mary to bless us, Your Highness, I hope we You can still retain the power to make choices.”

"May the Virgin Mary protect us," the princess said.

"If," Eva suddenly came closer, almost to the point of being rude, she leaned into the ear of the princess and said, "if things really develop in a way we don't want to see, Your Highness, I am willing Leave France with you."

The princess's eyes widened.

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The principal thanked Eva for comforting her. She even felt that if she really wanted to marry to Spain, to a country that was hostile to France, she might really take Eva with her. Eva is a warrior. , other noble ladies may not know, but she knows.

What she didn't tell Eva was that she wasn't that scared. Really, a few years ago she heard that she was going to be married to Carlos II, a crippled fool who was about to die soon. She was like a sacrifice. She could only cry and tremble at the sacrifice of Tai, and had no idea what she should do. If her father and uncle hadn't discovered this, they asked her to go to class with the eldest princess - it was better to say that it was a class, but it was better to say that it was a pure journey. The poison of politicians is injected into the buds - in fact, if the "teachers" who teach them have the opportunity to marry into other royal families, they will probably be ecstatic, because the queen and the crown princess may be the closest It would be an outsider at the peak of power. If it were someone else, unless they met a tolerant king like Louis XIV, their faith, origin and connections would be enough for them to operate well for more than ten years...

Just like an ignorant child who just screams and runs away when encountering a wolf, a strong hunter will be overjoyed when he sees a wolf. The current princess is not afraid of facing the wolf in the future. mission - she might be married to Carlos II. The ugliness and deformity of Carlos II were still there and had not disappeared, but to her now, it was no longer an important thing.

She even heard what Eva meant. This brave, of course, can also be said to be vicious lady, was willing to go to Spain as her maid. It was obvious that she wanted to be Judith's maid. (Note 1) Yes, she even hinted to the princess that if things really reached an irreversible point, the princess could imitate the former French princess and the wife of King Edward II of England (Note 2) and commit regicide. thing.

Thinking of this, the princess was horrified and wanted to laugh. If she really wanted to marry in Spain, maybe Eva would be the best one compared to the impeccable ladies around her in manners and conversation. choose.

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There is an additional update for this chapter today. Please note that the additional update is in this chapter. The additional update time is approximately 8 to 9 pm.

Because relatives have been coming to entertain me in the past two days, the update time is a bit unstable. I'm sorry, but I promised that there will be 25 chapters to be updated this month, and there will definitely be 25 chapters to be updated. The fish will never let the pigeon loose. clatter! Let me remind you again, adding an update is not a new chapter, it is adding an update after the previous article!

Note 1;

Judith was a Jewish noblewoman. When the Assyrian army besieged the Jewish city of Bethturia, she bravely sneaked into the enemy camp, seduced the Assyrian general Holofernes, got him drunk and beheaded, and finally freed her. Cities and people. In the painter's paintings, the maids around Judith often occupy a very important position and are Judith's indispensable helpers. They have the same supreme courage and perseverance as Judith.

In the easter egg chapter, I posted an oil painting with the theme of Judith. If you are interested, you can check it out. This is my favorite oil painting.

Note 2: The she-wolf of France, Princess Isabella, was the wife of King Edward II of England. Because Edward II was a bit gay, he even allowed his mistress to tease and hurt his and Isabella’s son, Isabella. Queen Elizabeth and her lover (yes, she also had one) forced the palace to seize power. A few months later, Edward II was killed in prison - well, one thing has to be said. In folklore, this love queen The king who did not love beauty and country was pierced to death by... a red-hot iron. The author has already described the piercing execution. It is said that the nearby residents heard the miserable wailing...