Versailles is worse than being queen

◎The princess is also amazing! ◎

Antania hadn't saluted for 15 seconds as required by etiquette, when the king helped her up and kissed her cheeks intimately.

Then he turned his head, "Louis! Louie! Come here, boy, come and meet your lovely little bride."

At the moment when everyone's attention was diverted from the little bride, Antanya subdued her smile imperceptibly.

The crowd moved away one after another, and a chubby boy subconsciously shrank his shoulders like a shell left on the beach when the tide receded.

The clumsy and dull crown prince came forward slowly, and carefully took Antanya's hand.

Those fleshy hands were hot and damp.

Everyone laughed coaxingly.The King laughed and shook his head, "Louis! You should kiss your bride!"

As if in response to the king's words, the band played a brisk romantic song instead.

Antanya felt her hands tightened.

Chubby was nervous—and she couldn't help but smile a little too.

Having lived together for so many years, she certainly knew what kind of person Louis XVI was - he was indeed extremely bad at being the center of attention, and he would get nervous when there were too many people.

When the riotous people were about to attack the Palace of Versailles, she had designed a speech to encourage the palace guards for him with the last hope, and practiced with him—but when the king came in front of many soldiers, he was still nervous Didn't say anything.

At that moment, Antanya almost stood up and gave a mobilization speech by herself.

But she finally held back.

As long as the king is still there, the queen is his wife after all, and her position is only behind him.

Antanya slowly raised her eyes, and was meeting a pair of big, round eyes in front of her—at this moment, these eyes were full of tension, fear and embarrassment.

She couldn't help but startled.

These eyes are timid, black and white, and clean without any impurities.

——Was that introverted and incomprehensible locksmith, the last king of France whom she never loved, ever been so young?

Antanya suddenly realized that although she had lived with Louis for more than 20 years, in her own memory, she always regarded him as a peer.

When she saw Louis for the first time, she suddenly discovered that this little chubby man was her husband, who had nothing to do with the image of the handsome prince she had originally imagined. It's stuffy.

And the last Louis that remained in her mind was the cowardly king who was always indecisive and undecided in the riots, and never dared to fight back in the face of other people's humiliation, which made her terribly disappointed.

At this moment, in 1770, Louis Auguste, the eldest grandson of the French king, was only 15 years old.

Actually still a child.

Antanya looked at the little chubby in front of her for a moment, and finally smiled helplessly.

This time seeing Louis again, she didn't suffer from the disillusioned mentality of the last time, and she found that he actually looks pretty good.Just fatter.

Children, a little fat is cute.

She used Louis to block the view of the crowd behind, and whispered as if they were hugging, "You should kiss my cheek, Your Royal Highness."

Louis was taken aback for a moment, and finally came to his senses—this is indeed a courtesy.

In fact, he didn't know what it meant to get married at all, and was completely arranged by the king and ministers to get married, but he was still quite nervous about the fact that a little girl he didn't know at all would become his wife next.

That's why when they met for the first time and everyone was booing, they were so cramped that they didn't even know where to put their hands.

Fortunately, the Crown Princess is so smart and understanding!

Louis shook her hand gratefully, and kissed the girl's delicate and soft cheek lightly.

Until Antania got into the carriage with him and sat between the king and the crown prince, the little chubby held her by the hand and did not let go.

Antanya couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic to him——

She only cared about being angry back then, and didn't notice at all that although the crown prince didn't say a word, he was actually cramped and nervous throughout the whole process. He secretly glanced at her several times but didn't dare to speak.

Hey, the shy little fool.

The official wedding of the crown prince and princess will not be held until they return to Versailles. Now that the groom and the bride have joined, there is no need to hurry as before, as long as they can return to Versailles to hold the wedding on time in two days.

Everyone stayed at the castle of Compiègne for the first night.

Now that they all came to the forest of Compiègne, in the evening the king led a large group of nobles to gather around and prepare to go hunting.

And Antania intends to pretend to be in a daze all afternoon.

Before arriving at the Palace of Versailles, in fact, all plans cannot be carried out-she just needs to obediently play the role of a harmless young princess.

She observed carefully and found that Mrs. Dubarry was not in the crowd, and she did not know whether she was disappointed or let out a sigh of relief.

It seems that Madame Dubarry did not come to Compiègne Castle just like in her previous life.

Indeed, the conditions of Compiègne Castle were not comfortable, and it was not a place that the woman liked, and the hunting team brought by the king was relatively streamlined.

As Antanya thought, she watched dozens of attendants busily setting up tables and chairs in the woods, laying out baskets of bread, cheese and smoked ham.

It suddenly occurred to her that when she came to Versailles, the life of being watched and eating was about to begin again.

The banquet at the Palace of Versailles was held in an open hall on the first floor, with a corridor above the side, overlooking the whole hall.

Every time the royal family gathers for a meal, hundreds of people will be "honored" and able to watch the royal family's meal from this corridor.

Antanya sincerely believes that no one should have an appetite in such a scene-except the real French royal family.

Louie would always bury his head in the hills of food, eat deliciously and concentrate, and sometimes end up with a loud full belch.

At this time, people will laugh enthusiastically.But surprisingly, they didn't applaud - oh, the mysterious Versailles etiquette.

Thinking back to those days of dining at Versailles, she sighed with great melancholy.I'm forced to lose weight again.

"Don't you like hunting?" A tentative voice sounded from behind.

Antanya turned around and caught a little chubby walking cautiously beside her.

His Royal Highness the little prince has already changed into his riding outfit, and it looks like he is ready to go.

His chubby stomach and limbs were tightly wrapped in shirt, tight breeches, and knee-high riding boots, like a fat sausage about to burst its casing.

"Oh, no." Antanya replied casually, "It's just...Huh?"

Her eyes flicked over Louis' shoulders, and fell on the weeds behind him, and saw a few clusters of shoots like tender green low, thin arrowheads——

"asparagus!"

Overjoyed, she stepped forward, stretched out her hand and broke off one.Asparagus is the most tender time in spring, and it will be broken as soon as it is broken.

"Ah, so this is asparagus?" Louis leaned over in surprise, his eyes widened as if he was looking at some fragile and rare butterfly specimen, he stretched out his hand as if wanting to touch it, then retracted it.

"Have you never seen asparagus?" Antanya asked subconsciously.

Impossible, she has eaten asparagus many times in France.

"Uh," the little prince drooped his eyebrows as if being scolded by a teacher when asked, "I, I've only seen cooked asparagus...never seen raw ones."

Antanya was shocked, "Have you never picked wild asparagus?"

Of course, His Royal Highness would not do such things as growing and washing vegetables.But she thought that picking wild asparagus and wild strawberries in the depths of the forest was a childhood that all royal children had.

Isn't this a must-have outing entertainment outside of winter!As for winter, it's even more fun - skiing, skating, sledding...

Louis lowered his head in shame: "...No."

When he lowered his head, the little chubby squeezed out a rounded double chin, and the drooping eyelashes covered his eyes like a small oriental fan, making him look very pitiful.

Antanya immediately felt sympathy for the little prince.

In fact, she was not completely ignorant in her previous life.The French court kept children in captivity. Little Louis had almost never tried entertainment other than hunting and gambling|money since he was a child, and he was not good at dancing. In the end, he could only study locks pitifully.He had never even seen a snowman, and it was Antania who taught him how to build the first snowman in his life.

She clicked her tongue in her heart, and handed the picked asparagus to Louis: "Try it, start from the pointy end, it's very fresh."

The little prince was stunned for a second before he took the asparagus, and took a bite from the tip of the sprout.

The asparagus is so tender that water can be squeezed out, and it bursts open in the mouth when the upper and lower teeth are tapped lightly. The fresh and sweet taste immediately fills the mouth, and there is also a slightly astringent taste that is just right, just like a touch of the top of the green shoots sprouting in spring Snow.

"Is it delicious?" Antanya asked him with a smile.

"Delicious." Louis nodded hastily.

In fact, it was a little bit bitter, but the little girl in front of him smiled so sweetly, he didn't have the nerve to say it wasn't delicious.

"I'm going to pick some more. Many asparagus near here have been trampled by people or horses. It's not good. I'm going to go further." Antanya picked up a picnic from the tablecloth beside her. Basket, "Do you want to go together?"

As a result, His Royal Highness' plan to go hunting with his grandfather somehow ran aground and instead sneaked into the depths of the woods to pick asparagus with his little bride.

Wild asparagus tends to grow in bushes in the shade of trees, and the shady place is, the fresher and crisper it is.The nails were lightly pinched and folded close to the root, and then snapped off crisply, and green juice splashed from the cut.

While explaining, Antania skillfully pinched a lot of asparagus.

"...Well, in fact, playing in the wild is good for children's physical and mental health. You should get closer to nature. It's too pitiful to grow up like you."

"There's wild asparagus in the spring, and wild onions—you can make pesto. Summer and autumn have lots of berries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, whatever. As for winter, there's not much to pick, but wait till next fall. Snow is even more fun, you can have a snowball fight!"

"This is the childhood a child should have."

The little prince clumsily followed Antanya to pick asparagus, and at the same time looked at her with eyes full of respect.

At this moment, his admiration was like watching Baron Frank perform difficult equestrian moves.

The Crown Princess...is too powerful!

The author says:

Antanya: Oh, the poor boy.