Versailles Wild Rose

Anna of Austria regrets the untimely death of Maria Theresa's brother Balsata Carlos. Carlos was Maria Anna's fiancé, but died of smallpox shortly after the engagement. He was only 17 years old.

At the mention of smallpox, Abigail began to worry again.She has never had smallpox herself, but smallpox is an indiscriminate attack. It does not mean that you will be fine when you are an adult, nor does it mean that you will be naturally immune if you are a member of the royal family. You will die when you are damned.

Terrible

Alas, it is not easy to survive these days, it is not easy to grow up to be an adult, and it is even more difficult to live to be seventy or eighty.

Queen Maria kept Henrietta under strict supervision and hardly let her leave the palace to go out, and the little princess had no chance to go out by herself. She had never had smallpox, and they all said that healthy children had a relatively high probability of surviving smallpox. Big, if you have not had smallpox in your teens, once you get smallpox, the possibility of death is extremely high.

Abigail asked about smallpox, and after lunch, the imperial doctor was called over for a while, only to find that there was no concept of "virus" in this era, and it was not known that smallpox was caused by the smallpox virus, nor Knowing that the virus is contagious, but vaguely knowing that children who have smallpox are best cared for by someone who has experienced smallpox, but this measure is not strictly enforced.

After much deliberation, we can only reduce the possibility of infection by strictly restricting the number of times children go out.

Anna in Austria did not tell her relatives about Abigail. There is a tradition in this era that she would not announce the good news until she was three months pregnant, because she was worried about early pregnancy miscarriage; after three months, most people rarely tell outsiders about their pregnancy The reason for this is that having a child is a great joy, and pregnancy is a bit disreputable. It seems that pregnancy is a "shame" thing, but the sex life, especially the king's sex life, is a matter of national attention.

this is so strange

Louis was unwilling to admit that the birth mother might have an illegitimate child with a very low social class. Few people knew about it. That is to say, the French nationals did not know that their king was fertile.

Thinking of this, Abigail forgot about the smallpox worries and just thought it was funny.

It's funny how the king's sex isn't about him alone or with another woman, it's about the whole country.

She whispered this strange incident to Philip, and it pleased him very much.

"exactly"

"You seem to be the same way. When Louis gets married, it's your turn to get married."

Philip didn't mind, "But I'm not a king, and I don't even have to have a son."

She was deeply suspicious, "Didn't you say you wanted me to have a boy in the morning"

"Really? You must have heard it wrong. I've changed my mind now. I want a daughter." He pressed his hand on her lower abdomen, "When will your belly be bigger?"

so stupid

"It's still early, it won't be until next spring."

"Really?" The innocent boy didn't know how many months a woman needs to conceive, and never thought about knowing this knowledge. "I see those ladies have big bellies, and then they give birth to babies in a short time."

"Didn't you find that the skirts worn by women are very good at covering up the belly?"

He pulled her skirt, "Let me take a look." He stuffed a pillow under her skirt, tidied it up, and felt it wasn't big enough, so he stuffed another pillow. "It's kind of like this."

Louis was taken aback when he came in, "What are you doing?"

"Brother Wang, look at Abby's belly is getting bigger."

Abigail collapsed on the bed laughing, "You're such an idiot"

Louis couldn't bear to look directly at him, "Go out and let her take a nap."

"Are you going out for a ride now?" She tugged on Louie's sleeve.

"Go ride." This is his dignity as a king, and he will never allow any situation to disrupt his daily schedule.

"There should be nothing wrong now. After all, it is not easy to organize such a powerful assassination in a short period of time, but you still have to be careful." She put on the appearance of a good wife, extremely docile.

Louis was full of joy, thinking that the assassination would not be completely harmful, and Abigail was so docile these two days that it seemed like a different person.

This is the attitude a royal mistress should have.

The king and his brother went out to ride together.

Abigail doesn't want to take a nap, so she goes to Cloud's room.He ate a loaf of white bread for lunch, drank a bowl of green pea and pigeon soup, and fell asleep again.

I still have a fever, which is caused by infection. In the era without antibiotics, I can only rely on my body to resist. If I can bear it, I can live.

Veronica was away, and the new maid, Penny, served her a bowl of pigeon soup with green peas. She drank the soup and ate some green peas.Louis loves to eat green peas, so the palace invented 100 ways to eat green peas, making soup, cooking and frying them as snacks.

Rosalina arrived at the Louvre at 3:[-] p.m., walking all the way through the palace gate with a look of wonder and envy.

The servant sent her outside the king's chamber, but the guards stopped her.

"I have come to see Madame de d'Artagnan. She is my sister. Please send to Madame."

The guard called a maid and asked her to go in and inform his wife.

Abigail coming out soon, "Rosalina"

"Abigail"

The sisters met and hugged each other very affectionately for a while.

"Come in, brother should be waking up soon." She took Rosalina's hand and walked straight in, "He was stabbed in the waist, don't be afraid."

"Is the injury serious? I'm worried to death."

"I don't know whether the injury is serious or not, but he probably survived. He woke up last night. The imperial doctor said that he is very strong and he will definitely recover."

"Thank God"

"Thank God"

Claude is still awake.

He was a very handsome young man, tall and long-legged, with the same blond hair as his two sisters, but a little darker; he had a high nose and deep eyes, with gray-blue pupils, but his eyes were closed now.

"Do you want me to do something?" Rosalina asked in a low voice.

"No, just ask the servants to do all the chores. This is Penny, my maid. Where's Veronica?"

"She was very tired. I asked her to rest at home. I brought Gillan and was stopped outside." Gillan is Claude's maid.

"Penny, go and bring Gillan in. Tell me, how are Paulina and Morgana? I miss them. How is Little Claude? I haven't seen him in a long time." Little Crow De is Rosalina's son, named after his uncle.

"The children are all well and happy to be in Paris."

Abigail pursed her lips and laughed that little Claude was only 5 years old, and the twins were only 2 years old. They didn't even understand what "Paris" meant.

"Tell me quickly, how is your Majesty treating you?" She inexplicably lowered her voice. This is the king's bedroom.

"Your Majesty is okay. Don't mention him, how is Nicholas?"

"He's not bad."

"Is it good, you don't count."

"Then who has the final say"

"Claude has the final say. He said Nicholas is a coward, let that tigress ruin your reputation."

Rosalina wanted to laugh because of the word "Tigress", but she could only smile wryly, "She is an elder."

"Hey, she gave birth to Nicholas, but you were also born by your mother's hard work. Why is our family also an earl? How dare she bully you?"

"Stop it." Rosalina said weakly.

"When my mother was alive, she didn't let me take care of your affairs, saying that I was still young, so I can always take care of your affairs now."

Rosalina smiled wryly again, "Stop talking. I've left his house now, and she can't say anything about me anymore."

"Do you think I seem to be able to bear this tone?" She said angrily, "Don't be afraid of her now, I am the king's mistress, and most people in this country will be afraid of me getting angry."

"But what can you do?"

"I've already thought about it, and I want her to apologize to you, and then I'll let the king revoke the title of that old bastard, and give your son even Nicholas the title."

Rosalina was dumbfounded, "Can you?"

"The king's will is supreme and he can do whatever he wants."

"I don't know." Rosalina lowered her head and twisted the handkerchief in her hand vigorously.

"When Claude recovers, I will ask him to go back to Rouen and finish this matter. By the way, how is the woman in our family?"

Speaking of the stepmother, even Rosalina showed a look of disgust on her face, "She is about to give birth."

"Will it be our good father's seed?" Abigail asked coldly.

"I don't know, and I don't want to know. Anyway, even if I have a son, I can't take away Claude's title."

Abigail thought for a while.

The age of the stepmother is actually not too old. She is only 35 years old this year. She was married before, and her ex-husband died. She has a son from her ex-husband, who is 15 years old. Her ex-husband is a knight who cannot inherit the title, so her son is just a commoner. The earl's stepson is also unlikely to have a title. After all, Claude is still alive. The system of eldest son heirs is that unless the eldest son does something outrageous, such as treason and killing his father, it is almost impossible to cancel the right of inheritance. Claude's title is not gone. , but property is hard to say.

For example, the earl could sell the land at a low price under the pretext of lack of money, and then handed over the land to his stepson with his left hand, and passed the land to his stepson through a lawyer. Claude could only suffer this dull loss because the property was still in the hands of his father.This is one of the reasons why Abigail must get the family crest ring.Father didn't have a family crest ring, so it was basically difficult to sell the land privately. If he really wanted to sell it, Claude would say that the procedures were illegal and cancel the sale.

So basically, the stepmother wants to have a child because of money. After all, it is not easy to live without money. As long as she doesn't do anything foolish, it shouldn't be a problem for Claude to raise the three of them. When they pass away, they will get a two-story villa for the three of them, out of sight and out of mind, and they will be given living expenses every year. They will not starve to death, but they will not become rich. This is a very common way of dealing with it.

After all, there is no blood relationship, and Claude is very conscientious if he didn't ruthlessly drive them out to fend for themselves.

She didn't care too much about whether the child was from the Barberion family, as long as it didn't have anything to do with her.

Because D'Artagnan was busy catching the assassin's mastermind, he had no time to teach her marksmanship recently. She had heard enough gunshots yesterday, so she decided to let herself go and take the opportunity to take a few days off to practice marksmanship.

After being free for a long time suddenly, she felt too bored, thinking that it was time to go upstairs to see how well her room was decorated, and took two maids upstairs.

The dignitaries are busy catching the assassin's mastermind, the servants are still working as usual, the wallpaper has been removed, and the workers are plastering the wall and pasting new wallpaper.

Louis was in a hurry, and Bangtang was also in a hurry, so he found a contractor and asked multiple rooms to start working at the same time.

She has seen this suite before. It has more than a dozen rooms, large and small, and it is not inferior to the traditional queen's suite, but there is no waiting room, and it is impossible for Abigail to entertain those noble ladies for the king. It suits her.

At that time, she didn't expect that when she came up to check today, she suddenly realized that there was no children's room in this suite.Not to mention, the children's room is above the king's room, should the king still sleep?

That's nothing. There are plenty of servants in the palace. At that time, Anna of Austria should choose a noble lady to be the child's nanny. In fact, it is almost equivalent to the adoptive mother. Her biological mother only needs to go to see the child every day.

She was thinking about it, she might as well go outside the bathroom door, when suddenly someone grabbed her arm and pulled her into the bathroom.

She was about to yell in surprise when someone covered her mouth. ,,