Your Mightiness

The birthday gift from Raphael was a bit late, and it was not until January 1 of the next year that August saw his true face.

That day was the date on the king's wedding invitation, and the nobles went to St. James's Palace early, blocking the street in front of the main entrance.The ladies compared their clothes, jewelry, flower hats, and the gentlemen silently looked at the transfer of the knights of their old opponents and whether they had replaced more expensive and better carriages.These nobles seem to have nothing else to pursue in their lives other than getting rich.

The royal guards in front of St. James's Palace were almost driven crazy by these people, but they still had to maintain a calm expression that did not insult the nobility of the royal family.

August stood at a high place in the palace and looked down, silently dubbing the voices for the poor guard knights—where is my 40-meter machete?Let me kill that pretender!

cough.

After the mutual torture in front of the gate, the nobles will move to the banquet hall in the palace under the leadership of the attendants, and wait for a while while enjoying tea and snacks.

The scale of St. James's Palace is undoubtedly a bit small compared to Whitehall Palace and Hampton Court Palace. Fortunately, there are not many domestic and foreign nobles who can be invited to the king's wedding, and they can barely carry the passenger flow this time. quantity.However, everyone's mood became less beautiful because of this crowding.

Most of the nobles still have a full level of expression management, but there are still a few emotional ladies who deliberately choose to wear expressions that are heavier than going to the grave.It has nothing to do with crowding, but the lover is getting married, but the bride is not himself.Even though the whole of Europe knows that Richard II is a scumbag, he is still the perfect lover in the hearts of many people. Whether it is an ignorant girl or a charming mature woman, they always start to have dissatisfaction with him unconsciously after in-depth exchanges with him. realistic fantasy.

Just like the once popular novels with playboys as the hero, they hopelessly hope that they will become the end of the hero's romantic history, but they don't know that they are just the sail in a thousand sails.

No one can change Richard II, not even he agrees with this view.

August didn't need to wait in the banquet hall, so he didn't have to watch this disturbing drama.

August and Raphael had already moved into St. James's Palace a day earlier.Here, a very important palace under the name of Richard II is "the Senior Palace of the Sovereign", which is the legendary main palace.To put it simply, St. James's Palace is the main empress, and Whitehall Palace is just a coquettish and cheap concubine. You can sleep and play when you have nothing to do, but once you get married, have a baptism, and receive foreigners For a series of major events such as the monarch, it is still necessary to use the empress to show that dignity.

However, just like most boring empresses, the red brick building of St. James's Palace is not very favored by the king. If there is no major event, Richard II generally does not want to live here.

God knows what Richard II built St. James's Palace for.

"He asked Cromwell to confiscate the property of such a small church. The pound was too much to spend. Of course, he had to do things everywhere." Miss Mary was full of sarcasm to her father.As the daughter of Princess Aragon, Miss Mary is a staunch supporter of Catholicism. She is very disgusted with Protestantism, and even more disgusted with the king's confiscation of the property of the Catholic Church in the name of Protestantism.

This teaching, that teaching, Augustus who listened to it was in a fog, didn't they all believe in God, why did they have to separate such details?

In fact, the political atmosphere in London is already considered good. In the early years, when Richard II had not decided to cultivate his morals, the bloody storm he set off was called chaos.August didn't know much, and even if he knew, he couldn't quite understand the meaning behind those actions.Well, even if it is understandable, August has no intention of getting involved in religious disputes.He respects other people's beliefs, but he doesn't believe it himself.

August now lives in the York Hall, which is the bedroom specially reserved by Richard II, exclusively for August.Through the Georgian-style sliding windows, you can see the opposite deer park exclusive to St. James's Palace.That was the hunting ground that Richard II promised to take August to. Now August can only look at the garden and sigh, regretting to miss it.

This morning, Raphael knocked on August's door and tied a pair of gemstone cufflinks for August himself.The button looked old, but it was as bright as new, and the style was very versatile.

August was pleasantly surprised: "Is this the birthday present you said you would give me today?"

Gifts do not lie in the price, but in the heart. The pair of cufflinks are often taken out to play with at first glance, and they must be the owner's favorite.It was an honor for Raphael to give it to him, which represented Raphael's trust in him to treat it with treasure and value.

Raphael, who originally wanted to say "It's not expensive, if you don't like it, you can throw it away at any time", paused for a full three seconds before recovering his voice, and said dryly: "This is actually what I misunderstood A person gave me a relic, and I haven't seen her a few times. I didn't want to see it before, then I didn't dare to see it, and then I couldn't see it. Every time I see this cufflink, I feel hot , but I can’t help but want to see it, so I’ll give it to you.”

With my best wishes and hers.

In the ancient and old manor, behind the layers of curtains, lay an old woman who was dying.The withered hair and haggard face all showed that she had suffered terrible illnesses during her lifetime. She said to the priest with a weak but firm voice: "Please, God, I have made a deal with the devil. I dare not I ask for your forgiveness, and I dare not ask for his forgiveness, I only ask you to bless him, please take care of him, my... thank you, Almighty God."

According to the priest who performed the final confession for her, she died with a smile on her face, holding her cuff buttons, as if she had reached an agreement with God.

Therefore, no matter what, the priest hoped that Raphael would accept the pair of cufflinks, which represented a person's greatest blessing and love for the living.

I don't know if it's psychological, but every time Raphael holds the pair of cuff buttons, he always feels that the cuff buttons are hot, scorching his hands, but he dare not put them down like masochistic.

It was not until today that Raphael confided in others for the first time.

In fact, even Raphael himself didn't expect that he would really say it. August seemed to have some kind of magical power, which made Raphael full of desire to talk like never before.However, such a conversation is already the limit of Raphael.Before August could respond, he made a concluding statement, "I believe it has divine power, and you deserve it more than I do."

The most is the tenderness, focus and piousness of bowing the head.

"I will keep it safe for you." August solemnly promised Raphael, "When you want to get it back, you can tell me anytime."

It was as if what they exchanged was not a pair of cufflinks, but a sacred promise.

August didn’t ask any thoughtful questions, nor would he be recklessly curious, because some memories belonged to only one person and were extremely private. He didn’t know and he wouldn’t die, but he was forced to say Those who come out will live a life worse than death.

and so……

"Be happy, Yael, you deserve the greatest happiness in the world, just like everyone else."

Raphael leaned over and hugged August. There was no reason to hug him. He said, "Why do you always think I'm unhappy?"

Because I have known you in my previous life. Your words are always full of anger and violence. In my imagination, you are a little bastard who loves to hold your chin up and put on a look of contempt. You can’t laugh. It's cold.When you meet again in this life, although you have learned to laugh, you still haven't learned what happiness is.

So: "I want you to be happy."

Raphael blew into August's ear, with tingling ambiguity, like a feather sliding over the tip of his heart, making people tremble, and he said, "Me too."

The real birthday present, of course, wasn't the cufflinks that Raphael wanted to give on a whim when they woke up in the morning.But when all the nobles moved from the banquet hall to the Royal Chapel, they heard the king holding Princess Anne's hand in front of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican Church and said: "Whether you are old, sick or dead, rich or poor, I will be firm to you until the end of your life." Faith that never changes..."

…From today on, you—Princess Anne—are my sister. "

"What?!!!"