I Am Louis XIV

When Milady walked out of the room, she met Rong Ke and Melfa, and they exchanged glances, "Mrs. Milady," Rong Ke asked, "are you leaving the Colonna Palace, or are you going to the world? "

"Only the Palais Colonna," said Milady; "after all, at this moment, it is not appropriate for me to be here."

"Then it seems that we want to wish you a smooth life in the future." Rong Ke said.

Milady smiled when she heard the words: "I believe it will," she said, "The Mancini family is willing to give me a place to live." She couldn't help chuckling when she thought of the young wizard. Although the men and women are good-looking, but with the lovely Miss Mary and Felipe Mancini she has heard of, there is almost nothing to praise for their sophistication and communication skills. They are just lucky to be in the Mancini family. If they were put in the hell she was in, they would go crazy in a few days.

However, the generosity of the Mancini family may be just to monitor her, lest the king's lover interfere with the relationship between the king and Mary. Milady did not correct them, and the Mancini family specially arranged for her a remote The manor is just what she wants, and when the king leaves the inner world, she can make waves as much as she wants.

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Misty.

Although the original intention of this marriage was not pleasant, Louis was still very curious to be able to witness, no, it should be said that he personally experienced the wedding of wizards. From moonrise to moonset, it is said that in the Mancini family, there are still a series of complicated procedures, but with Louis, it is much simpler. In other words, those trivial matters are all done by Mancini's collateral or hired wizards up.

Looking out from the window, you can see a clear glass-like stream being introduced into the courtyard, meandering among the vegetation, and blooming flowers can be seen everywhere, from laurel to camellia, from silk chrysanthemum to rose, from From roses to jasmine, the petals fell into the stream and were carried everywhere by them. Besides the petals, there were also golden lights shining in the stream, which were fragments of gold leaf, illuminated by the silvery moonlight, like countless tiny stars.

The statue of the mermaid is singing, the statue of the musician is playing, the sound is soft and soft, and the blue birds are falling on the branches or flapping their wings on their shoulders, completely disregarding the time when they should be sleeping.

The Colonna Palace is even more like being awakened. The reliefs on the walls, the knight statues in the atrium, and the gargoyles under the eaves all woke up, stretching their bodies, and the noisy goblins wiped their bodies for them. The doors and windows The draperies turned from a dark gray to a beautiful royal blue, and lilies could be seen where no one would notice.

Louie was robed like any wizard, with a hood hanging down his back, which had grown golden brown over the years. His curly hair was crowned with roses, and on his finger he wore two heavy rings, one of which was It is to be handed over to Marie. For this ring, he values ​​it as much as the Mancini family. After all, it will be the representative and proof of his presence in the world in the future. Looking towards the courtyard, the first guest had already arrived at the Colonna Palace.

A wizard from the Mancini family introduced to Louis in a low voice. There were not many wizard families who came here at the beginning. After hundreds of years of fighting, there were only five surnames left. They are all members of the House of Lords, and they also take turns as the speaker. It was supposed to be the turn of the Mancini family this year, but they are busy transferring to the watch world, so they sold this qualification to Romano, the head of the Romano family. For this reason, too, he was the first to arrive at the Colonna Palace.

Wizards and nobles seldom ride in ordinary carriages. On such formal occasions, they will not be disrespectful to ride owls or broomsticks. After their Pegasus carriage circled over the Colonna Palace for a week, it landed steadily on the Colonna Palace. On the edge of the dense forest outside the palace—but these refer to the old and steady wizards. When the young wizards arrive, their approach will be more dramatic—what Louis saw was a pillar of fire, or a stream of water Falling from the sky, they violently hit the predetermined stone floor, and then in the bursting flames or swirling water, the wizards strode out with dots of light or wisps of mist. "There are requirements for this way of travel. "The wizard of the Mancini family whispered: "You must have strong magic power, practice many times, and have fire and water around you."

This method is indeed impressive, but it is a pity that Louis is often a puzzled guy: "Those wizards who were burned to death?"

"Of course they were stripped of their magic first," said the Mancini wizard, "and then burned—but most of them were mortals."

I know, Louis said to himself as he pressed the wreath and got up from his chair.

In fact, the communication among wizards is no different from that in the court. Some people chatted with Louis. They either had similar ideas with the Mancini family, or they wanted to find a supply and sale channel from the world of watches. Louis took the opportunity to After learning about the output of the inner world, almost all industries in the inner world cannot get rid of magic, even agriculture is no exception. They use mortals who have deprived their souls as livestock and tools, and then use ordinary wizards to fill exchange offices, bookstores and Daily necessities and other low-level positions that only require repetitive monotonous labor, and then from top to bottom, power is controlled by the big families. The so-called House of Commons is just a window for selecting those dangerous elements.

Louis' careful listening satisfied the wizards, especially the Mancini family. They still did not give up their plan to let Louis stay in the inner world, but they did not dare to act recklessly because of the threat of the king.

When the moon was about to set, the soft mist rose from the ground, and people saw the scene as if separated by a layer of veil. The older wizards returned to the room with smiles, and handed over the second half of the wedding to the young people.

From the depths of the white mist, a procession of witches appeared, all young and not wearing robes, but wrapped in translucent tulle in the manner of ancient Roman women, whose arms were transformed into swan wings, As they walked, they gently flapped up and down, and the mist was opened in front of them like a lifted curtain—following them were a group of male wizards, who were equally handsome and young, where their arms should have been stretched out. It is the wings of eagles, they expose their upper body, and their strong muscles are proudly displayed in front of their lovers - when they were about a hundred feet away from the Colonna Palace, they overlapped silently, black and white The wings opened and closed one by one, and the music in the courtyard disappeared at some point, only the sound of wings piercing the air.

Such a scene is undoubtedly beautiful, but Louis only thought that although the wizards in the inner world gradually escaped into the inner world after the sixth century AD, they inherited far more things from ancient Rome than people imagined. In Roman mythology, both the swan and the eagle were symbols of Jupiter, the father of the gods, though he transformed into these two charismatic birds either for deception or for plunder.

After them, the bride is led by the bridesmaids, her veil hangs from her hair to her knees, and she also wears a crown of roses.

Louis took her extended hand.

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Even though he had made an agreement with the parents of the Mancini family, Louis still stayed in the other world for another two months. When he left, Mary already had a child—the wizards wanted to determine whether a wife was pregnant. It is more reliable than doctors in the superficial world.

Prince Condé was waiting for Louis at Dunkirk. When they met for the first time, Louis was still a child, and Prince Condé did not take this young king seriously. , and now he has become Louis' prisoner. The two of them have been silent for a long time, and no one else knows how to speak. Only the Viscount Turenne stepped forward bravely. "Your Majesty," he said sincerely, "there may be a sinner here." , but what he did for you and for France deserves your forgiveness, please forgive him, forgive this person who made a mistake, if his merits are not enough, then take mine.”

This sentence made Prince Condé nervous. He once hated Turenne because he betrayed him and turned to the king, but now he must also be moved by this sincere friendship. What does he want to say? At that moment, the king raised a hand to stop him.

"I've heard," said Louis, "thank you, my dears. When I was sick, you showed no less wisdom and courage than on the battlefield. I have seen our contract with the British, as I hope that you will capture half of Dunkirk, this vital city can finally fly the flag of France - we may be able to reduce many casualties and tragedies caused by it in the future, yes I would like to thank you for this." After speaking, Louis took off his hat and bowed to the crowd, who quickly returned the salute.

"Now the situation has been settled. Thanks to the grace of God, I have also recovered and will soon return to Paris. Of course, I will record all your achievements in my heart and documents. Please also return to Paris with me so that I can reward you." Louis smiled and looked at Prince Condé, "Except you, Condé."

This sentence almost made Turenne jump up, and Condé grabbed him. He was not surprised by this ending. To be honest, even if the king threw him directly into prison, he would have nothing to complain about. Salute: "I would like to obey the order, Your Majesty."

"I don't want you to stay here, my lord," said the king, "I want you to stay three or four days behind me. When I return to Paris, I will lead my courtiers to meet you in front of the Louvre." , I will pardon all your sins in front of everyone, not only because of your contribution in Dunkirk, but also because of your future..."

"After?"

"Yes, you made a mistake, I must punish you, but Your Royal Highness, I want to punish you, that is, let you return to my army, fight for me, and put your talents to the real glory Instead of dying tragically as a traitor, I hope so, what about you?"

"I can only say that I am very willing to accept such an arrangement."

"That's good," said the king. He looked up at the sky, and the bright sky dazzled him for a while. Everything in the other world was like a beautiful nightmare, but he knew it hadn't left, it hadn't passed, " Now I can only hope it's a girl," he murmured.

"What?" Bontang asked on the side. This loyal servant was terribly thin. Although there was a vampire puppet lying on the bed instead of the king, some important matters still required the king's most trusted and closest person to come. Done, especially when the British were negotiating with the Prince of Condé, who more than once entered the room to ask the king's opinion, and it was Bontang who taught the golem to answer, who had only Louis hurried on the booklet He had to rely on his understanding of the king to be able to answer the written words fluently, and every conversation was a torment for him.

"No, it's nothing," Louis said, "you'll have to rest for a while when you get back to Paris."

"I can persist, Your Majesty," said Bontang, "if you will allow me a good night's sleep."

In fact, Bontang fell asleep in the carriage on a rare occasion. His eye sockets were sunken deeply in the past few months, and he looked like a living skeleton. He started to rest, and when he arrived in Paris, there were still countless things waiting for him to deal with.

But on the way, they heard that the Duke of Gaston of Orleans had finally died, and he had no male heir from an orthodox marriage, so his title and territory must belong to Philip, Duke of Anjou. This news is really shocking. People are gratified, thinking about what he did before, the queen mother did not agree to any of the requests made by Gaston's widow.

Louis asked his envoy to go to Paris first, and told the queen mother to prepare for the canonization ceremony of the Duke of Anjou, no, Philip, the Duke of Orleans. He wanted to hand over Orleans to Philip immediately, whether it was for public or selfish reasons... the king's convoy He drove into the street in front of the Louvre in the early hours of the morning, but as soon as he turned a corner, he saw the Louvre brightly lit. There were people holding torches in the square, and some nobles even ran after his carriage.

I haven't seen him for a few months, and the younger brother Philip seems to have grown up quickly. Although his attire is still... exaggerated, and for some reason, he even braids his hair, but even if there is a bow on the braid, it is still a little bit too much. It didn't prevent Louis from hugging this brother tightly, their arms were crossed on each other's backs forcefully, and joy overflowed from their fingers.

Then came the Queen Mother, a woman who had always abided by court etiquette, and even stepped forward to hug Louis. Louis bent down and kissed her face.

The king straightened up, and all the faces he saw were filled with joy, except one person was missing.

"Where is Monsieur Bishop?" he asked.