[Infrastructure] Rose kissed Barcelona

"Let me introduce you, this is Mr. Sarasate, the violinist."

After the song was over, Joey bit the bullet and led Prince Arthur to the edge of the dance floor.

"Oh, I've heard of you for a long time!" Prince Arthur shook hands with him very enthusiastically, "I had the honor to listen to your performance at Buckingham Palace before, it's really amazing!"

Although he is obsessed with military affairs and knows nothing about art, he has always been comfortable in social situations, and it is not difficult to praise others.

"This...is the architect Mr. Gaudi." Joey introduced cautiously.

Antonio lowered his eyelashes and cast a quick glance at her.

"I know you!" Prince Arthur opened his eyes wide. "I have read the cabinet's report. Your bid for the World Expo in Paris was so wonderful that you even let Barcelona beat London!"

After the polite greetings, Antonio handed a glass of sangria fruit wine to Joey very naturally, and said in a calm tone, "Two days ago, he said he was Mr., but now he has become Mr. Gaudi?"

Joey was about to take the wine when he suddenly felt that the wine might be poisoned.

"Why are you here?" she asked immediately.

Didn't he say that he was too busy to leave Santander?I was still teasing him at the time.

A man's mouth, a deceitful ghost.

"I miss you." Antonio said without changing his face.

Joey nearly dropped his wine glass.

Antonio what the hell is going on?There was no warning, which made her goosebumps instantly.

"What's the matter?" Prince Arthur laughed.

"As you can see, we are in a relationship." Antonio raised the corner of his mouth slightly and raised his glass to greet him.

Prince Arthur said "Oh".

He came to Madrid at the order of Queen Victoria, but he actually had another important purpose—to meet Princess Rose.

Just as Spanish ministers expect the king to marry Princess Beatrice of England, the British royal family also needs princes and princesses to marry the royal families of other countries.Arthur has only one younger brother who is the same age as Princess Rose. Unfortunately, he suffers from hemophilia and is slender and fragile. Therefore, this important task falls to the only 27-year-old Prince Arthur who is still single.

Just look at how the princes from other countries who were invited to the ball tried so hard to strike up a conversation with Princess Rose before the ball to know how many other royal families besides the United Kingdom are also thinking about her.

Only he was savvy, thought Arthur, not without complacency, and invited the princess to the first dance on the grounds of football league business.

So, he also picked up a glass of red wine, tipped the sip of the glass slightly in salute, laughed and said, "That means you're not married yet."

Whoosh——In the blink of an eye, the eyes of Antonio and Sarasate focused on him at the same time.

Although the demeanors are different, the meanings expressed are the same - can it be like this?

"fair play."

Prince Arthur's smile widened, and he lip-synced them.

He was very satisfied with what he saw, and wanted to win this glory for his great motherland.

And he is very generous, if the princess is really unforgettable, he doesn't care so much about her having a lover.It must be one of his competitiveness.

Joey didn't pay attention to the eye contact between the three at all.

"Your Highness!" She heard a familiar voice from a distance, and immediately turned her head away.

"Your Highness!" the man called again, and Joey only had time to put down his wine glass, and was almost knocked down by the enthusiastic visitor the next moment—"Ada!"

Ada was wearing a grand military uniform, with a neat black uniform that outlined her straight shoulders, a golden medal pinned to her chest, and shiny leather boots.

"Oh wait, I'm sorry, I'll do it again!" Joey laughed, "General Jimenez, good evening!"

Ada had just been promoted to the rank of major general not long ago, and now she is a real general.

"Good evening, Your Royal Highness!" Ada snapped a military salute.

"Major General!" Prince Arthur looked at her epaulettes in shock, suspecting that he was dazzled.

He was no more than a colonel himself!

"Your Highness." Ada nodded to him reservedly.

The epaulets on the prince's dress clearly stated that his rank was not as high as hers.

But this involved diplomacy after all, so she politely called him His Highness.

"Your Highness," Sarasate said first with a smile, "I recently wrote a new piece of music that I want to dedicate to you——I will play it later."

"Wow!" Joey's eyes lit up, "Mr. Sarasate, I am so honored!"

At this moment, a young man with dark brown hair squeezed into the crowd as if no one was there, and saluted Joey directly with a solemn expression: "Your Royal Highness."

"You are..." Joey's social phobia was about to start again.

Fortunately, the protocol officer who was always watching around immediately rescued her: "This is Prince Victor of Prussia."

The seemingly underage Prince Victor seemed to have a serious and gloomy expression unique to Germans, and his expression was so serious that Joey thought he was here to say "sorry" to himself.

Hiss, this little brother is so scary.

His temperament from the inside out is a kind of scary that is completely different from Alfonso's innocuous taste.

Victor cleared his throat and was about to speak when Prince Arthur suddenly said, "Your Highness, do you know that I served in Canada and was awarded the honor for my bravery in the Battle of Eccles seven years ago?" Received the General Service Medal."

As he spoke, he took off a medal from his chest. The silver medal with Queen Victoria's face was engraved with a red and white ribbon in the colors of the Canadian flag.

"Oh, it's true." Ada muttered in a very low voice.

"This medal has witnessed my bravery!" Arthur said with a bright smile, and put the medal in front of Joey: "I would like to give it to you as a gift for the first time, Your Highness—"

He blinked at her very quickly, "In front of you stands the future British Field Marshal!"

Ada: "..."

You are so kind.

Joey was stunned, and subconsciously took the medal, but his heart was full of question marks—what's wrong with giving away medals and boasting of his bravery as soon as they met?

Does His Royal Highness have social arrogance?

Victor watched Arthur give the gift with a smile on his face, and his face suddenly became more gloomy.

Although he has been receiving rigorous military training due to physical reasons, he is not yet old enough to receive a medal on the battlefield.

And he can't show off like a fluffy rooster!

Before coming here, Victor had done careful research and thought that it would be very difficult to win Princess Rose—from top to bottom in Spain, I am afraid that they do not want her to marry to another country.

Generally speaking, the greatest value of non-crown princes and princesses is to marry other countries as a customary and romantic diplomatic agreement.

But for Spain, the value of Princess Rose is obviously much more than a marriage contract.

He made a lot of plans for this. When he came to Madrid, he asked the King of Spain as soon as possible, and planned to make corresponding commitments in diplomacy, military affairs, and economy in order to marry him.

He's got big military ambitions - and he's not going to go around talking like that idiot Arthur, knowing that getting Princess Rose must be a huge boost.

However, the King of Spain showed a lack of interest when he heard him mentioning this matter.

"Oh, it depends on what she wants." Alfonso said, "After all, Joy is my sister, and she can only marry someone she likes."

As expected of a king who insists on marrying a useless queen, Victor thought bitterly.

He didn't intend to make good use of the strategic resource Princess Rose? !

the most important is……

He was completely unprepared to compete with Hua Ling's rooster to please girls!

Just when Joey didn't know where to put the medal, Ada grabbed her arm: "Your Highness, look at this—"

Following her instructions, Joey looked at the newspaper in Ada's hand, and his face suddenly changed.

The headline on the front page is a copy of the Altamira cave paintings, and the headline is: "Academic scandal! The discovery of prehistoric human murals that shocked the world by Spanish scholars is actually a forgery!"

Arthur was still talking about his views on military deployment, and suddenly found that the atmosphere had changed.

Princess Rose looked very bad.

At this moment, Antonio, who had been silent just now, suddenly took her cold hand, "Don't worry, the conclusion of the prehistoric anthropology conference is the end of the debate."

He took Joey away without anyone else.

"...Who is he?" Victor asked with an ugly face.

Arthur glanced at him, and his tone suddenly gloated: "I think, it's Her Royal Highness's favorite."

……

The authoritative French anthropologist Cartel Heck issued a statement, listed several pieces of evidence, and finally made a merciless verdict-the murals in the Altamira Cave are completely forged, and they were painted by Sotura for vanity up!

With the Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology just around the corner, the announcement caused an immediate uproar.

"Marcelino Sotulla, you are not worthy to call yourself an archaeologist!"

"You are a shameless person who is greedy and deceitful!"

"All archaeologists in the world are ashamed of you!"

Fortunately, the prisoners on the pillar of shame should also have the opportunity to refute themselves-the defense on the authenticity of the Altamira Cave will be held at the Prehistoric Anthropological Congress in Paris in March 1878.

After attending Alfonso's wedding, Joey and Antonio hurried back to Santander.

Seeing Suotura, Joey was startled.

I haven't seen him for several months. Sotula, who is only in his 40s, has half of his black hair gray, sunken eye sockets, and a haggard face.

They moved and no longer lived in the original house.

Although the Suotura couple didn't tell them why, when they passed by one time, they immediately understood that the exterior walls of the originally beautiful and clean house were splashed with dirty paint and painted with quite vicious words, "Liar" "Infidels" "Disgrace to the Spaniards" and the like.

The little girl Maria was also silent a lot.

The church took this opportunity to publicize and mobilized all the nearby neighbors to isolate Sotura's family. She could no longer go to her original school, and other children beat her, and even the teacher didn't treat her well.

The only one who was in a better state of mind turned out to be Mrs. Sotura who always had a sad face.Although she was also thinner, her once bewildered eyes no longer hesitated at this moment, and became very firm.

Tia never went to church again.

She hired a tutor to teach Maria, and supported the family firmly and tenderly when her husband couldn't sleep all night and wanted to study and refute but didn't know what to do.

"Your Highness, I finally understand that the church does not represent God. Their hearts are really vicious." Once, Tia said while walking by the seaside with Joey.

Her expression was peaceful and indifferent.

"Some time ago, I accompanied Marcelino to the cave for the first time. I always felt that it was dirty and unclean, which was contrary to my beliefs. I didn't interfere with his research, just because I love him."

"But I was speechless when I saw the frescoes—I finally understood what Marcelino said, 'Our ancestors were brilliant artists.'"*

"By the way," she suddenly thought of something and smiled knowingly, "Have you noticed before? There is a wall in the cave full of handprints of various colors - I found that those hands are about the same size as mine. These ten thousand years The previous artists turned out to be women!"

She smiled at Joy, "Maybe you're thinking stupid—I still believe in God. He gave us suffering, but he also gave us great humanity. I've never felt so truly how great human beings are."

At this moment, Joey's sleeve was pulled.

It's Maria.

The little girl's originally chubby face had lost a pointed chin, and her eyes appeared even bigger.She tugged on Joy's cuff, looked up at her pitifully: "Your Highness, my father didn't lie, did he?"

Joey squatted down, looked at her level, and nodded firmly.

"Yes."

"Don't worry, we'll prove it."

Time flies, and winter seems to pass in an instant during their desperate search for information and field research.

When spring came in March, the Paris World Expo opened, and the Prehistoric Anthropology Conference was held soon as scheduled.

The Suotura family, Antonio and Joey both came to the scene.

This afternoon was a symposium on the Altamira Caves, and the participants were yawning and uninterested.

Everyone in the venue knew that there was no suspense in this debate.

On one side is the most authoritative leader in the academic world, and on the other side is an amateur archaeologist with no professionalism at all.

Although the final decision will be made at the conference, everyone understands that by the time Katelheike issued a statement, everything had already been settled.

Unexpectedly, after the host announced Marcelino Sotura, the main spokesperson of the Altamira Cave, the list of supplementary speakers announced next made everyone sleepy.

Her Royal Highness Princess Rose of Spain, and Count Antonio Gaudí? !

What a joke!

Although both are well-known, they will not deny the contributions of the two in their respective fields-but what do they have to do with archaeology?

One of the most exciting is the other side of the debate, Katel Heike.

When Joey walked to the other side of the podium opposite him, he straightened his delicate tuxedo and said unhurriedly: "Today, we have welcomed an unexpected guest. To have such a distinguished person pay attention to archaeology It is a great honor for me to pay attention to my research.”

He took off his hat reservedly and somewhat arrogantly, and saluted Joey: "Your Highness, I know you have a noble status. But I'm sorry, I want to emphasize one thing—"

"In the halls of science, there are no kings and princesses."

"You are quite right."

Joey nodded lightly, "Then I also want to emphasize one thing, I believe all respected experts and scholars will agree."

She looked around with a meaningful smile on her face.

"In the temple of science, practice is the only criterion for testing truth."

The author has something to say: Antonio was really wronged at the ball, he couldn't change a house duang in front of him (he must be very envious of King Tota Li).

Highlights of this chapter:

Prince Victor of Prussia, who would become Emperor of Germany many years later, was the main planner of World War I.

The Altamira cave was the first Paleolithic human mural site discovered in the world. At that time, all academic authorities believed that it was a fake hoax, and the researcher Marcelino Soutura was ruined.It was not until 20 years later that the academic circle finally confirmed that the murals were real, but Suotura had died of depression many years ago and could not see this day.

*Sautura's original words.

Thank Xiao Xiaomu for the nutrient solution~