Versailles Wild Rose

Louis kept an eye on the people behind him from time to time.

hateful!Can't she just show a little bit of jealousy?

He thought angrily, maybe this trick is of no use.

He took Christine to a nearby resting place, where a flat-roofed open tent was used to set up a comfortable resting area, and a long table was placed under the top of the tent, where some ladies and ladies were already sitting and taking a nap.

Seeing the king approaching, the ladies hurriedly stood up and saluted.

"Ask someone to prepare pastries and fruits again." The manager, Bang Tang, appeared out of nowhere.

The servants quickly re-arranged the long table with plates of desserts and fruit, and the unopened champagne was placed in the ice bucket.

Louis asked Christine to sit down, and Philip sat down at the other end of the long table.

Henrietta pulls Abigail to sit beside Philip.

"Look, here's a lot of fruit. What do you like to eat?"

"Grape."

Henrietta pointed to the fruit basket containing grapes, and motioned for the servant to bring it over, "I really like eating grapes, French grapes are delicious. What's this called?"

"Ruby, Your Highness." The servant replied wittily.

"It's really like a ruby." Henrietta squeezed a grape and faced the sun.

This kind of grape is not big, small and round, slightly smaller than the pad of an adult's little finger, with thin skin and a sweet aroma.

Her Royal Highness eats grapes just like other girls, stuffing them into her mouth and spitting out the grape skins and seeds after a few seconds.

King brothers also like to eat grapes.

French grapes vary according to the origin and have their own characteristics.Most of the grapes in the Louvre are produced in the Touraine and Champagne regions, and the regions with excellent grape varieties are mostly wine-producing regions.

Desserts are macaron puffs and nut pies, as well as pink peaches, light golden pears, red purple cherries, strawberry golden oranges, all of which are the king's favorite fruits.

Abigail asked the servants to go to the kitchen to get a can of cream, and dipped strawberries in the cream to eat. Henrietta immediately praised her, saying that she didn't expect strawberries to be eaten like this.

Louis also asked his servants to dig out a ball of cream with a spoon and put it in a porcelain plate, and dipped it in strawberries, and on a whim, dipped it in cherries.However, cherries have pits and hard flesh, which is not as good as sweet and soft strawberries.

There are no good citrus varieties in France, and the king wants to eat citrus, all of which are imported from Portugal.

Philip and Louis have roughly the same preferences. They both like to eat fruit, the sweeter the better.

After a while, some jugglers came, and after being instructed by Bontang, bowed to the king, and began to juggle.

From Abigail's point of view, juggling wasn't much fun either, it was nothing more than a clown on stilts doing seemingly impossible things like swallowing fire and throwing balls.Because performing in front of the king, there is no more exciting blindfolded throwing knife, so it is just a boring ordinary juggling.

After only a few glances, Philip and Henrietta didn't pay attention and went to chat when they realized that this was a juggling show they had seen countless times before.Louis has also watched it many times, lazily and not interested, but Christine watched it with gusto.

Louis watched absent-mindedly as Abigail and Henrietta had a good chat, and suddenly felt agitated, stood up abruptly, and left alone.

Christine was baffled, and almost shed tears in horror, thinking that she had offended the king by saying something wrong.

Henrietta asked strangely: "Why did he leave by himself?"

"Who knows?" Philip said impatiently, and called a valet. "Go and ask the lady to go back to the—crowded place, and see where the others are. Where did the others go?"

"Your Highness, just now His Majesty let the guests play the game of 'catch the unicorn'. Whoever catches the unicorn will be rewarded with the gemstone on its head."

Philip came to a sudden: "No wonder those noble gentlemen and wives are crazy. Look, my brother Wang really knows how to play!" He made a grimace.

Henrietta was very interested, "Did someone catch it?"

"Not yet, Your Highness."

"Shall we catch it too, Abigail?"

"You are a princess." Abigail said seriously, "If you want any jewelry, you can ask His Majesty directly."

"That's so boring!"

Of course, the Queen Mother of England has no shortage of jewels. When Queen Maria left the UK, she took a large number of royal jewels with her.At the beginning, she wanted to sell royal jewelry in the Netherlands to raise military expenses for King Charles, but because the jewelry was of such high grade, there were many interested people, but few buyers.

Abigail thought secretly, it seemed that the two Bourbon brothers would not let the "fat water" Henrietta go easily.Henrietta also has three older brothers, all of whom are in exile in other European countries. It is very likely that her brothers will return to England to inherit the throne in the future, and Henrietta will be the younger sister of the "current king".

Add to that a large dowry and piles of jewels, and Princess Henrietta would be a very wealthy bride.

Abigail won't go after the "unicorn," and Henrietta isn't offended, and is soon distracted by other things.

"Look! Who's that? He's so handsome!"

A young officer in the uniform of the King's Guard approached, "Your Highness. Your Royal Highness."

"You are—" Philip thought for a moment, "Vicomte Raoul de Blageronne, aren't you?"

"Yes, Your Highness, your memory is really good." LaVoule smiled, "I want to ask Your Highness if you have seen my fiancée, Miss Christine de La Vallière."

"I don't know," said Philip, pretending. "What color is she wearing?"

"Orange dress, she has beautiful blond hair, just like this lady." LaVoule nodded slightly to Abigail.

"Where should she go?" Abigail pointed not far away, "Why didn't you accompany her?"

Raoul smiled embarrassedly, "It's because of your majesty—I want to catch that unicorn so that I can dedicate the jewel to Miss de La Vallière."

aha!understand understand!After all, no one can resist the charm of gemstones.It's a nice gift to give your sweetheart a gemstone.

Henrietta asked, "So did you catch the unicorn?"

"No, Your Highness."

"Hurry up, we should go find that stupid unicorn. Ravul, come with me to catch the unicorn."

Poor Raoul can only accompany Henrietta to catch the unicorn.

"Let's go too." Philip stood up.He raised his arm to her, motioning her to take his arm.

"What else is there for fun?"

"what do you want to play?"

"It's just - interesting, a game that can be played by many people." She thought about what new games could be introduced now, simple and easy to operate. "Let's play 'loop'. When I was in the country, some children would play this kind of game, that is, put some small toys on the ground, then weave straw into a circle and throw them on the small toys. It's yours."

"Oh! This must be fun! I've never played like this before." He called for his steward and gave him instructions.Abigail's game is so simple that anyone can understand it right away, and quickly understand what needs to be prepared.

Soon, the manager prepared the venue on the lawn of the garden, found a few small vases and other small items to place on the lawn, and asked the gardener to get some vines from vines and asked them to weave them into a ring.

Some people gathered around and asked curiously what it was.

From upstairs, Louis heard the voices of people talking in the garden getting louder and louder. Looking outside, a bunch of people gathered on the lawn, and they didn't know what they were playing.

He yelled at Bang Dang, "What are these people doing? Don't they have any other games to play?!"