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Chapter 4: dead end
The female official seemed to have opened the door to a new world, and refreshed the bottom line of the nobles' ethics in their cognition. Even peeking at William's eyes was wrong, and his eyes were always looking behind him.
She handed the tray in her hand tremblingly. After Avril took the letter in the tray, she seemed to be hiding something dirty, and she seemed to have to leave the house. closed the door.
Avril patted her cheek lightly, calming down the blood that had surged up because of the fight, and then slowly opened the letterhead in her hand, and then the flushed flush that had just calmed down came to her face again.
"Five more days! After five days, he can come and collect my corpse!"
She blushed with anger at the contents of the letter, she tried to shred the letter with both hands, but she did not expect that the letter used for the communication was made of a special material, which was tougher than the old tree bark. tug.
"Cough! Cough!" She suddenly threw down the letterhead, stretched out her hand to cover her lips and coughed, and an abnormal blush appeared on her fair face.
Without a word, William picked up the dropped letter and glanced at it quickly.
"Your Majesty
The private army of the fierce lion family has already made every effort to advance to the capital, but the food, grass and supplies have not yet been gathered, and it will take five days to reach the capital. I hope your majesty and the queen will persist for a few days. When the vanguard arrives, old Cole will surely I personally killed the leader of the rebel army to the two..."
"A bunch of idiots! Do you really think those rebels will be satisfied with occupying two duchies! Sooner or later, this self-righteous old fellow will be...coughcoughcough..."
"Your Majesty, it's time for you to see a doctor, because you haven't rested for a long time with the rebels. If you go on like this, you won't be able to hold on."
William X's indifferent voice sounded faintly, pulling Avril out of her anger for a short time, she slumped weakly on the chair, and laughed twice.
"Cough, there's no need for this anymore. The rebels will call after two days. Now I can't hold back at most a serious illness. Wouldn't it be the same death after two days?"
William closed his eyes and pondered deeply while leaning on the big sword. He opened the mouth and said, "Have you ever thought about..."
Avril waved her hand and said helplessly: "Have you ever thought about leaving the capital? The army that can be dispatched is either in the north or in the hands of Marquis Jibo in the south. Those troops are all private armies of the major nobles, if the capital is the capital. After being beaten down, how many people do you think are still willing to obey the dispatch of the royal family?
Gilber still has a week to arrive. If Cole can resist for a few days, the rebellion may still be suppressed. Now he obviously won't come, Fran... has come to an end. "
After she coughed twice, she fell on the table angrily and helplessly: "I asked him to restrain his taxes and revise the laws that were too unreasonable. Did Cole choose to die for Fran? And those New nobles, I'm already planning to help them obtain reasonable fiefs as much as possible, why can't I wait, but I have to start a war..."
Her Majesty the Queen, who is shrewd, strong and imposing in front of people, shows a rare vulnerable side. She murmured: "Should I really not do this, and should watch Flange slowly collapse? But if these nobles are no longer restrained, how will the commoners survive?"
William stood silently behind her, took off the cloak behind him and put it on her.
In fact, what you have done is not bad. You have done a decent job in formulating laws, commanding the army, handling government affairs, and approving taxes. If you change to the world in your previous life, you might really be able to continue the national fortune for hundreds of years.
However, there are extraordinary people in this world. A team of hundreds of elite knights is enough to easily defeat tens of thousands of ordinary people. The greatest armed force is in the hands of the nobles. If it weren't for the intervention of the new nobles, those ordinary people would not be able to overthrow the two dukes in a few hundred years. In such a world, it is very difficult for a king who is dedicated to taking care of the people at the bottom to end well.
Avril closed the cloak on her body, and muttered on the table in anguish: "William, you are also from a noble family. After the Vankins family was banned, you have been serving as the guard of the royal family. It is difficult to understand the feelings of ordinary people. ."
"I was just like you before. Even before I was eighteen, I didn't know there were beggars in this world until the day I married Peter."
She sat up straight, wrapped the cloak tightly around her body, and recalled in a trance: "At that time, people all over the street were cheering for us, throwing petals at us, everyone was bright and beautiful, everyone looked like So happy. But as we passed the twelfth block, a dried flower was thrown on me."
When William heard this, he immediately understood. The intersection of the main road of the capital and the twelfth block was the entrance to the slum.
Avril said in a low voice: "It was a flower thrown by a dirty little girl. She stood outside the alley on the street and smiled at me. I still remember that little gray face, the pair above. The big eyes are especially beautiful, like two black pearls embedded in the face."
"I also smiled at her at the time, then took a handkerchief and threw it back, with two pieces of candy and a few flower petals in it. Then a woman in tattered clothes ran out of the alley and gave the child to I hugged her back. She glanced at me when she got into the alley, her eyes were very complicated, and it was full of things I had never seen before.
So I restrained my horse and took a step towards the alley, and looked inside. The scene in front of me just stunned me. There were dozens of people crowded in the alley that was more than two meters wide and ten meters long. When they looked up at me together, those eyes were full of fear, as if I Not one person, but a monster that wants to eat them. "
William stood behind her without saying a word, silently listening to her talk.
"I was quickly pulled back by Peter, and I was afraid to ask him who those people were. Peter told me with disgust on his face that they were all pariahs. For our wedding, he ordered them to be driven out two days ago. In the alley in the corner, so as not to affect my mood."
Avril lowered her head, and the hair on her forehead fell, covering her charming face, and she couldn't see her expression at all.
"You know, those people at that time have been in that dark alley full of feces for two days, two whole days!"
"I was in a daze throughout the whole wedding, I didn't know what I was doing, my mind was full of the little girl's face and the fearful eyes of those people.
After the wedding, I sent someone to look for the child, but the guard who came back told me that the child was dead. Those people in the alley of UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com fought to grab the two pieces of candy I threw. Being trampled to death by those who were fighting for the candy...two pieces of candy! Can you think of it? Just because of two candies! "
Avril covered her face and started sobbing, her ruddy fingers were too hard and began to faintly turn white.
William sighed and didn't know what to say. Although candy was not a luxury item among the nobles, only an alchemist could make it. Two pieces of candy cost about one silver waler, enough for a dozen bags of grain in the hands of the poor. .
"When I left Peter and rushed over, there was no one else in the alley, only the woman was still leaning in the deepest corner, with bruises on her face and blood oozing from the corners of her mouth. Full of footprints.
After seeing me go over, she hugged her daughter's body and knelt down slowly, then looked up at me numbly, and I will never forget that look in my life. "
"There is neither resentment nor anger, not even sadness, there is nothing in those eyes! The owner of those eyes is still alive, but the eyes seem to be dead!"
Listening to Avril's sobbing remarks, William couldn't say any words of comfort, so he had to stand silently behind her and accompany her.
"So I actually understand it. I know that the capital can no longer be kept. But if the royal family is driven away like this, everything I've done over the years will return to the way it was.
The royal family has enough money for me and Peter to buy a big estate in another country, and we'll be fine, but those who have just seen hope will fall back into **** again, and the empty twelfth block will come back again. People who cannot afford to pay taxes.
I know I shouldn't pin my hopes on that old fox, I just don't want to see those eyes again..."
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