Eagle's Glory

"You...you...don't you believe me?" she asked cautiously.

"I'm willing to believe you, but only if you convince me." Eggron replied, "Tell me, what do you want? Why are you loyal to me?"

The maid didn't answer. Under the cold light, her fair face was almost transparent, glowing with a white light, and she looked really pitiful.

"Do you want money and titles, or is it purely for the so-called glory? If it's the latter, I advise you not to take risks because of a moment of enthusiasm. This is meaningless to you and very dangerous." Aigron He continued, "If you want a title of money, then I have nothing to give you now, and I can't promise you anything."

"I don't want any of these things. I only have one purpose, Your Majesty." Chanel replied in a low voice.

"what?"

"For revenge, Your Majesty." The corners of Chanel's eyes glowed a little bit, but her tone was a little more bloody, "I need someone to pay for the life of my family."

Aegron stopped immediately.

"You said your father died in 1815. Did he die at Waterloo?" he asked after a moment.

"No, Your Majesty." Chanel shook his head, "He didn't die in Waterloo, he died in China, in his hometown... He was lynched, and so were my family members."

There was a sudden silence in the room.

"Please allow me to finish with you." A moment later, Chanel spoke again with tears, "I am a southerner, and my father is a retired officer. He did not join the army in 1815. He was tired of fighting. I just want to live a peaceful life with my family. But... those bastards, those executioners! They killed everywhere, and they didn't spare my father. They surrounded our house and burned it all... My parents, my brothers, My neighbors, my relatives are all dead... only one aunt escaped with me by chance. I was only a few years old at that time, and God knows how much she had to suffer before taking me out of the country! Fortunately, His Royal Highness Eugene We were lucky enough to settle down after taking in us orphans, but my aunt passed away soon, and before she died, she told me that we must take revenge and never forgive those sinners!"

Then she looked up at Aegron, eyes blazing with undisguised fire.

That is the light of revenge, that is infinite hatred.

"Your Majesty, we will take back the empire, we must kill them all, drive them all to extinction! Do you think so?"

Aegron didn't answer right away.

He believed that what the other party said was true.

After all, if anyone can show such real and terrible hatred in front of her purely by acting skills, then she must be one of the best actors in history. .

Therefore, according to her statement, her whole family died in the retaliatory massacre of the royalists against the Napoleonic elements in the south in 1815.

1815 was a disastrous year. The royalists ruled France. After Napoleon landed, he rebuilt the Hundred Days Dynasty, and then the royalists fought back... Political chaos will inevitably bring order chaos. Napoleon After the defeat of Waterloo and the end of the empire for the second time, revenge massacres took place in many places in France, some were bandits and some were royalists, but they were equally brutal and merciless.

[The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas has described this.

Chapter 44 of the original text: "Yes, my lord, please forgive me, but, as you will know in a moment, what I have said is all that can't be saved. At this time, the famous massacre in the south of France It happened. There are two or three bandits called De Tailong, Du Ximan and Grafan, who are openly assassinating people. Anyone they think is suspected of being a Napoleonic party is in danger of being killed. You must have heard Live through this massacre, my lord count?"

"I have vaguely heard that I was far away from France at that time. Let's go on."

"As soon as I entered Nimes, I really stepped into a pool of blood, because every step I took, I would encounter several dead bodies, and those murderous robbers were still killing, looting, and setting fire everywhere. When I saw this kind of killing everywhere and the sight of devastation, I panicked--not for myself (I'm just an honest Corsican fisherman and have nothing to fear, and on the contrary, that's the best time for us smugglers), but For my brother, who was a soldier in the Empire, just returned from the Loire army, and his uniform and his epaulets are enough to worry everyone. I hurried to the innkeeper. My guess is true. It’s accurate: my elder brother arrived in Nîmes the evening before, and was stabbed to death as soon as he reached the door of the house where he wanted to stay. I tried my best to find the murderer, but no one dared to Their names told me they were terrified.]

To be fair, the massacre did not last long. Although the Bourbon royal family hated the Revolutionary Party and Bonapartists, they did not want to see chaos in France, so they quickly stopped the massacre and restored order.

Furthermore, when the special commissioners of the Revolutionary Party killed nobles, rebels, and later "counter-revolutionaries", they were merciless, and they often killed a lot of people.

In a sense, the 30 years of the Great Revolution were like this. They did not forgive each other, killed each other, counterattacked again and again, and finally created a whole era of bloody rivers.

Therefore, for most people, this is just an insignificant episode in history, a nightmare that has been forgotten and must be forgotten.

Yet for some, they lost everything.

Chanel's family is one of the victims in this episode.

She is full of hatred, she wants revenge, but as a weak woman, she is absolutely powerless, so she wants to restore the empire, use the power of the empire to counterattack again, and send all those enemies to hell.

She doesn't care who is right and who is wrong, whoever starts first has the most reason to kill, she just wants to pay for her family's blood.

From this point of view, she probably hopes for the restoration of the empire more than anyone else.

In other words... she is someone who can be trusted, and she is her hope.

"So Your Majesty, you are my only hope..." Chanel's words also pulled him out of his thoughts. "You can restore the empire, I firmly believe. So I beg you, trust me!"

"Well, I believe you." Aigron finally nodded slightly, "I hope to get your help, Chanel."

Chanel opened her eyes wide, and for a moment, the intersection of grief and ecstasy made her pretty face unavoidably distorted.

"Your Majesty!" She knelt on the ground almost desperately, "Thank you!"

"Keep your voice down." Aegron stopped her. "Now is not the time to be excited. Tell me, what's going on now, how long have I been in a coma? What happened in the coma."

"You were sent back to the palace in the morning, and you have been in a coma for one night now. The imperial doctor checked your injuries, and you were finally rescued after applying medicine." Chanel calmed down, and then replied in a low voice, "His Royal Highness is very sorry. Sad, she has been with you all the time during the day, and the tears have hardly stopped. At night, everyone finally persuaded her to go to rest. When she was leaving, she was worried that no one around you would take care of you, so she left me... ..."

It turns out that this is how it happened.Aegron finally understood.

He didn't expect that he would do such a heroic thing.

Perhaps, what he told the princess at that time was not completely a lie.

In this place, he lacked friends, and he really didn't want to see his only friend leave.

Maybe even more than just as friends...

The endless sleepiness and hunger suddenly made him uncomfortable.

"I'm hungry, find me something to eat."

"Okay, Your Majesty." Chanel stood up.

"Wait! You are not allowed to speak French to me here from now on, and you are not allowed to call me Your Majesty, even when the two of you are alone." Aigron ordered, "The more you form a habit, the easier it is for you to slip up."

"I understand, Your Majesty." Chanel smiled, and the original pain and sorrow were swept away, "I just said that tonight."

After speaking, she walked out of the room and came back with another bowl of broth.

"Please open your mouth." She pulled up a chair and sat beside Aigron.

Then, she carefully fed the broth into Eggron's mouth.

I have to say that although she is young, she is indeed quite professional. Under her service, Aigron feels very comfortable.

"Thank you." He whispered thanks.

"You're welcome, Your Majesty... It's my honor to serve you." Chanel smiled, and then felt wrong again, "No, Your Highness! I'm sorry I said something wrong again."

Do you think I can truly become His Majesty the Emperor?

This question flashed through Aigron's mind, but he didn't ask it.

Sometimes people need some obsession to survive. If she believes that the empire cannot be restored today, then I am afraid that she will have a nervous breakdown the next second.

So even if it was for self-deception, she would enthusiastically believe that the empire would be restored and the day of revenge would come. This was the motivation for her to live.

And that's a boost he can use.

Because he knows that hatred is more durable than love, more solid and powerful, and more worthy of life.　　

11，报恩？

After the maid Chanel narrated his life experience, Aigron finally put down his guard and decided to believe her.

Chanel's narration is at least logically reasonable, and her monstrous hatred is absolutely impossible to fake - and even in the worst case, it doesn't matter if she is deceived, anyway, she has nothing to lose now that's it.

For the first time, he had someone he could trust and drive by his side, and he inevitably felt excited, but his frail body could hardly bear this passion.

He knows that all this is just the beginning, the most important thing for him now is to keep his body in good condition, only a healthy self is qualified to talk about freedom.

After drinking the broth, his body had already warmed up a lot. He raised his eyes and looked out the window. It was still dark night sky outside.

He looked at Chanel again, she had just wiped away her tears and managed to maintain her superficial calm, but her blue eyes were bloodshot, enough to feel her physical exhaustion.

She took care of herself until the early hours of the morning, and then experienced emotional ups and downs. She must be very tired.

"Chanel, I don't have anything else for you to do tonight, you can take a rest." So he said.

"It's okay Your Highness, you haven't replied yet, I need to take care of you." Chanel smiled.

"Since I'm awake and still able to eat, it means I've passed the dangerous period, and I'll just rest for a while. And you need to rest now, and I will continue to rely on you tomorrow." Aigron gave the order .

After a pause, he added another sentence in a gentle tone completely different from the indifference just now.

"Chanel, as long as you are loyal to me, I will fulfill your wish for you. So you should rest now. I need a healthy you to continue to serve me. This is very important to me."

After hearing this sentence, Chanel's eyes widened in surprise, a blush flashed across her face, and she bowed.

"Okay, as ordered, Your Highness."

Then, she sat on the sofa bench that Aegron used to sit on, and then leaned down on the armrest.

She was indeed very tired, so after only a moment, her breathing became very even, her back rose and fell rhythmically, and she was obviously asleep.

Looks like the young Avenger is pretty easy to coax... Aggron thought.

That means she's an easy guy to work with—or command—but it also means she's not the type to be brilliantly quick-witted.

But it doesn't matter, now he needs loyalty more than cleverness, and people who are too clever and scheming are not so easy to use.

Looking at the sleeping maid, he suddenly felt drowsy again.

It's time to rest, let's think about tomorrow's events after dawn... He closed his eyes again.

Although the pain on his body is still tormenting him, compared to yesterday or any day before, he is in a much happier mood. He knows that there has been a little ripple in his stagnant court life, and perhaps this means that there will be more in the future. stormy sea.

This is what he expected.

If there is a storm, let it come more violently, and destroy the world!

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When Eggron regained consciousness again, he felt as if his face was being gently stroked.

At first he thought it was Chanel, but when he opened his eyes, he found that he had guessed wrong, the person sitting by his bed and stroking him was Princess Sophie.

It was already bright, and all the curtains in the room were opened, and the warm sunshine poured into the spacious suite from several directions, illuminating all the furnishings inside, and at the same time, it seemed that Her Royal Highness had a layer of radiance on her body. Light.

But from the side of her eye sockets, she could still find traces of fatigue, probably she didn't sleep well last night.

"I heard that you are out of danger, so I came to see you." After seeing him wake up, Princess Sophie smiled, "Aigron, you really can't imagine that when you open your eyes How excited I am...God finally saved me from making an irreparable blunder!"

"I'm also very grateful to God for giving me the opportunity to experience the feeling of waking up from your touch." Aigron smiled, "It's very comfortable, Your Highness."

"You're looking more and more like a prodigal grandson!" Sophie glared at him complainingly.

However, she soon showed a relaxed and relieved smile. "But at least you can talk, and that's better than anything else."

Then, she didn't speak, but looked around the boy with a smile, as if confirming that he had come back to life without any defects.

"I'm sorry." After laughing for a while, Princess Sophie leaned over slightly, took his shoulders, and then gently hugged him in her arms, "Because my waywardness caused you to fall into this situation, I can only I impudently ask you to forgive me."

The boy froze unnaturally, and managed to calm himself down from the turmoil in his mind.

"It's not a matter of forgiveness or not. You originally proposed hunting just to help me relax. The accident that happened later was just my bad luck, not your responsibility." Aigron rested his head on the shoulder of Her Highness the Princess. , and then saw Chanel standing in the middle of the room.

At this moment, she had completely recovered from the excitement of last night, and stood behind Her Royal Highness expressionlessly, as if waiting for a new order from her master.

Everything last night was not a dream, great!He was secretly pleased, and then blinked at her, while Chanel bowed to him.

"No, I should have been the unlucky one...you endured all this pain on my behalf..." Princess Sophie, who couldn't see his small movements, continued to say in a guilty tone, "If you didn't react immediately , perhaps I might have even been... Eggron, you were a hero yesterday."

"You must not say that. I just did what a person who has been favored by you many times and who is your friend must do. If this is called a hero, then this title is too cheap Yes." Eggron replied with a smile, "I'm more concerned, now you should believe what I said that day..."

Princess Sophie let go of her embrace, then put her arms around the boy's shoulders, and looked at the boy again. At this moment, his smile was so pale and feeble, yet with a weak charm.

Ever since she came to this magnificent palace and became a member of the Habsburg family, every time she saw this melancholy child, she would always have a protective desire rooted in motherhood, and even a little chivalrous spirit, I always want to do something for my poor brother-in-law.

But yesterday, she clearly felt that this child had grown up, and he could try to protect himself—even he did so without hesitation.

God knows with what force the melancholy, frail and unfortunate child must have burst out at that moment, tore himself off, and used his body to cushion himself as both fell off the horse.

He said that he was reluctant to bear himself, but now he has proved it with practical actions.

"I believe what you say." Princess Sophie nodded solemnly, and then she let out a long sigh, "Well, before we know it, how cute our Eggron has become!"

After sighing, she lowered her head slightly and kissed the boy's broad and smooth forehead.

"I really don't know which princess in the future will be so lucky to be your wife, she must be the happiest princess in the world..."

Although she only touched it superficially, Aigron only felt his heart beat slightly faster, and his mind fluttered for a moment.

It's very sad to say, although he has lived for almost 40 years, even in his last life, he has never been in love.

"No princess would be so stupid as to marry a prince who has neither kingdom nor treasure." He forced himself to restrain himself, and then made a joke.

"It might be." Sophie blinked and replied with a smile, "There will always be some silly princesses who fall in love with princes who have neither kingdom nor treasure just like my sister... No matter how hard you try, you will always get one..."

As soon as the words came out, both of them suddenly felt a little embarrassed, after all, there seemed to be a little more ambiguity in this sentence.

Aigron looked at the other party again.

Although she is an aunt in name, she is only six years older than Aigron, and after all, she is only in her early 20s, which is the time when a woman is most radiant.Perhaps because of the light, or perhaps because she was moved by yesterday's heroic deed, the way she looked at herself today was a little gentler than usual, as if rippling with dots of lake light.

At this time, a sudden sound from the door interrupted the embarrassment between the two.