I Am Louis XIV

"Excuse me." After reading the letter, the potion master asked an unexpected question: "What about the name on the signature?"

"Because Athenais is not a proper name for the daughter of a duke," said the king, "but the duke still let her keep the old name as her middle name, and Francois is the duke's mother's name." , and the Roshshua family is the main branch of the Motmar family."

"Have you seen the Duke of Mortmar? What kind of man is he?"

"I have not seen it, but my messenger has," said Louis to Bontang. "Please come to me, the Comte d'Artagnan."

The reason why the king asked d'Artagnan to do this was entirely because this gentleman was bold enough, suave and suave, dressed in fashion and luxury, with a handsome face and elegant figure, A person like this will definitely get along with the Duke of Mortmar who desperately wants to marry a witch, and is even willing to admit three girls who have no blood relationship with him in order to win her favor. As expected, d'Artagnan, who had at least four or five lovers who emptied her husband's cash box for him, became the Duke's guest without any effort. Even if the Duke still had a little scruples, he also met the new Duchess Even d'Artagnan couldn't help being overwhelmed by her beauty and pitiful temperament.

Speaking of going to Bordeaux, D'Artagnan still had some doubts about whether the Duke was bewitched by the witch's magic. When he saw the Duchess, he conversely guessed whether the Duke had tampered with it. Especially after the Duke's eldest adopted daughter asked him to ghostwrite the letter, he was even more sure that Duke Mortmar might have done something not so moral, but if he were to say that the Duke's behavior was not too much, if It is him, and he will do the same. It is really a blasphemy against Venus to let such a beauty be gradually erased from her bright colors in a poor life and become mediocre and rough.

As we have said before, Mr. d'Artagnan is a flexible gentleman. He is good at perceiving words and pretending to be rude to win the favor of the bishop. Now that he is here with the king, he has not lost his sensitivity. Ask that question, and look at the gentleman standing over there, and he'll know what to say.

He first made a look of embarrassment, "I don't know where to start, Your Majesty, because this gentleman really has a lot to say."

"Be casual, then," said Louis, shifting into a more comfortable position: "Forgive my curiosity, but this is the first time I've seen a duke willing to marry a man with neither title nor dowry, A woman with only three daughters."

"This is the most reproachable thing about him," said d'Artagnan, bowing to the king: "If you ask me, like a duke, with a title, a considerable annuity and allowances, and a large territory, he Your fourth marriage should have been more respectable."

"The fourth time!?" The potion master couldn't help shouting.

"The fourth time," said d'Artagnan, "and the last time, because when I went there, I saw them love each other so much that if the Duchess left, the Duke would die of a broken heart. "

"How do you know no one can love her more than the Duke?" said the Potionist.

"I don't think so," said d'Artagnan in that innocent tone; "he could have made her his lover, but he made her his wife, so that she could sit in his side, shared his plates and cups, and on the day of the wedding, presented his new wife with jewels worth ten thousand livres, and a manor, so that she could have a place to escape the heat in hot weather. She gave each of her three daughters an annuity and dowry, and allowed them to use their own surnames, so that they could marry as daughters of the duke."

His words made the Potionist grit his teeth involuntarily.

"You said this is the Duke's fourth marriage," he asked reluctantly, "then he must be very old."

"On the contrary," said d'Artagnan, "he is not much older than you and me, and his first three marriages can only be said to be tricks of the devil. His first wife died in childbirth, and his second wife was infected. He got smallpox, the third wife's carriage overturned, and her neck was broken. Every wife, the duke kept a year's mourning for them seriously, but people said that he spent less time with his wives than for The length of their mourning is frustrating to say the least, and he hasn't even had a son yet, so hopefully this marriage will give him a happy heir."

Hearing this, the Potion Master's face was as white as snow.

D'Artagnan had no sympathy for this, because he himself was a fickle and dissolute person, so he said loudly: "If you ask me, except for the poverty of the bride, there is no match between them. Well, the Duchess is certainly beautiful, but the Duchess is also a handsome, affectionate and manly person, Your Majesty, before I left, the Duchess gave me fifty louis d'or for the journey. In addition, he also asked you Bless him, and his wife, for which he offers you a gift worth a hundred thousand livres."

"It seems that the Duke is indeed as generous as people say." Louis said: "Then you can go down, M. d'Artagnan, please rest well, and there are still many things for you to do."

"Then I will wait for your will," said d'Artagnan, bowing gracefully again, and going away.

"You heard that, sir," said Louie to the Potionist.

"I heard it," said the Potion Master with a trembling voice, "I heard it clearly, every word is like a knife stabbing my heart."

"Then do you still want to go?"

"Where else can I go, Your Majesty, the matter is very clear. If I appear in front of them, I will be the chief culprit in destroying their peaceful life."

"It seems that you have understood."

"Awakened, rather," said the Potionist, his chest heaving violently with each word. "I should have known."

"Then I will give you two options now, sir, you can leave here with your ID card, and I will give you another sum of money, because you used to be Mary's teacher."

"Please tell me about the second one."

"The second is to stay in Versailles and do what I want you to do."

"What kind of thing?"

"Help me take care of the farmers who followed us to Versailles, keep an eye on them, don't let the disease kill them, and keep doing your research, not only on herbs and magic, but also on your final destination from people got those."

"Don't you feel frightened?"

"As long as those corpses were not made by you."

"Then, my lord, what shall I have but a shelter?"

"Aha," said Louie, "you're getting greedy, too."

"I'm going to wear mourning because my wife is dead, but I hope I can still see my daughter."

"Don't you hate her?"

"Because she told the truth?" said the Potionist. "I only wish I didn't realize it sooner."

"I'm lucky," Louis said, "otherwise you wouldn't have come here, Mr. Varro Vesalius, Andreas Vesalius, who published the book "The Structure of the Human Body" in 1543." Is it about you?"

"Yes, Your Majesty," said the Potionist, "he is my ancestor."

"Is he a wizard too?"

"No, Your Majesty," said the Potionist, "the first wizard in our family was thirty-five years ago, and he was my father."

"Then you are not in the other world from the very beginning."

"Yes."

"So you..."

"We have no roots, no footing, no trust."

"Well, I understand your suffering a little bit, my sir," Louis said, "please do your best, if there is such a day, you may be able to meet your daughter again in my court."

The potionist said nothing more, bowed to the king, and went out.

"This is another world," said the king to himself, "but I don't think it's any different from mine."

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But for the king, the affairs of the other world have come to an end for the time being, and the next thing he has to deal with is called trouble.

Versailles was originally a nobleman's territory, but there was no clean water, no flat land, only endless bushes and swamps, no one liked it, and the lords here only used it as a hunting place, but He often invites some distinguished guests to come here, including the then French King Henry IV and his crown prince, Louis XIV's father Louis XIII. Compared with the owner of this territory, Louis XIII liked this wilderness that was extraordinarily quiet because of its barrenness, so he bought it from its owner and built a small palace for him. Hunting with some close relatives and friends. To say that he was questioned about his sexuality because only men were allowed to enter Versailles, but some people said that Louis XIII also invited his lover to Versailles, but was rejected, but For Louis, it was just a place where he could take in refugees.

However, in order to ensure that these refugees would not become the object of hatred of the local residents of Versailles (this kind of thing is very common), and it may not necessarily avoid a group of robbers and beggars outside Paris due to unmanaged management, Louis had to decide not to enter Paris for the time being. Staying in Versailles, guiding some young officials who were temporarily promoted by him to do refugee resettlement work—to his annoyance, among the young people, there were not many people like Pierre de Montesquieu, There are many people like d'Artagnan, they are not too bad, but if you let them do heavy and menial work, they will definitely make a mess for you, and the king must himself set strict regulations, requiring them Only by doing things in accordance with specific orders can he ensure that his vision will not lose its shape overnight.

When the king did this, only the Queen Mother felt anxious, and only Gaston, the Duke of Orleans, who was acting as the acting king, arranged many traps for the king, but all of them required the king to enter Paris to achieve, so he sent An envoy came and asked the king when he would enter Paris. Of course, in the message conveyed by the envoy, the Duke humbly requested the king to take away his title and power as soon as possible, because he was already overwhelmed. up.

Louis scoffed at this. The uncle said it as if he hadn't desperately recruited soldiers before. Now he not only has the title of acting king, but his army is no less than the king. He will enter Paris, but in Before that, he must fight his good uncle.