Chapter Ninety-Seven: Invitation to the Banquet
On the way back, Vivien Leigh kept her head drooping, as listless as a quail drenched in a storm. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Claire held the umbrella, and Charlotte and Vivien Leigh walked side by side, neither of them spoke, and they really didn't know how to persuade this innocent knight who had gotten into a dead end.
Charlotte knows that once people fall into a dead end of faith and philosophy, it is meaningless to persuade others except to think through themselves.
Many times, we will doubt our lives, our dreams, and our beliefs because of our own disadvantage, sad mentality, and external doubts.
At that time, we will experience pain, entanglement, and hesitation, and feel like a deer lost in the dark, unable to find a way forward.
At that time, other people's persuasion will be meaningless, because no matter how correct and pertinent the advice of others is, it is not your own voice.
But that's growth! It's the price that every sane person has to go through.
In this winter snow, the only thing Charlotte and Claire can do is to accompany them without words.
As for Sylvia, the princess of the ice lake led Dinah ahead of the curve with the holy sword and cherry blossom umbrella after saying that.
She holds the cherry blossom umbrella alone, neither giving the glorious task of holding the umbrella to Dinah, nor letting Dinah enter the umbrella.
This made the hundred-year-old Lori maid who had learned the origin of the umbrella glaring at Charlotte with jealousy before leaving, and then she pretended to be clever not to use any spells, and pretended to be pitiful and shivering with her hands on her immature shoulders, and followed her master pitifully like an abandoned puppy.
Her battle plan failed, and when the Charlottes returned to the state guesthouse, they saw Dinah wiping the snowflakes from her body with a warm towel, shrugging her red nose and sneezing in front of the room.
"What to see!" Dinah grinned angrily when she saw Charlotte, "I haven't seen a legendary mage who has a cold!
Charlotte ignored the mood of the dead duck-billed Lori legend, and gave a perfunctory thumbs up to Dinah and entered the hall. Leaving Dinah with red eyes and muttering strange things like 'Curse you' on her lips.
As soon as the three of them entered the courtyard where Erosa was, they saw Lawrence standing in the porch discussing something with Rebecca.
Lawrence beckoned to the three from afar and asked in a loud voice, "How's it going?"
With her head down, Vivien Leigh paused, and immediately rushed to the room, slamming the door shut.
Lawrence was stunned, he pointed to Vivien Leigh's closed door and asked, "What's wrong? Did you lose the game?"
Mrs. Rebecca also had a worried look on her face.
"It's better if you lose. Charlotte shrugged with a wry smile.
"What do you mean?" asked Rebecca, confused, and when she saw that Charlotte was also dying, she looked at Claire angrily, "Baron, tell me what happened." ”
Claire hesitated for a moment, frowned, and said, "Her Royal Highness probably feels that she has cut off the only way for those slaves to live, so ...... Somewhat uneasy. ”
"Lost in life?!" Lawrence's beard was about to under his chin, "What are you kidding! What does this have to do with Vivien Leigh! Even without her, the slaves may not be able to take that only way of life." ”
"But with Vivien Leigh, they don't even have the only way to live. Charlotte shook her head, "That's probably what Vivien Leigh thought." ”
"This is simply the funniest joke of this era!" Lawrence waved his hand with a smile, "Is it still a mistake to be strong? Natural selection, survival of the fittest! All the disadvantages in this world come from their own powerlessness, what does it have to do with their opponents?"
Lawrence is right when he says that only the truly weak will shirk responsibility. But the problem is that for those slaves, they have no choice from birth.
Rebecca glared at Lawrence in disgust, and she reminded in a low voice, "But Vivien Leigh is a girl. No matter how talented she is, she is just a gentle and kind eighteen-year-old girl!"
"But the problem is that even if she discarded her knightly talents, she is also the princess of the Clayderman family!" Lawrence replied solemnly, rubbing his brow.
"I regret it now, I regret that I didn't educate you in the way those noble lords did! Maybe I would have taken you to the execution ground to watch the execution when you were young, and then your three brothers and sisters would not have developed the excessively gentle character you have now. I'm so worried about how you, with such innocence and gentleness, will rule a country in the future!"
This is probably one of the things that has bothered Lawrence the most lately.
The thin Clayderman family has three direct bloodlines in this generation, and what is even more exciting is that the abilities and talents of all three people can be called top-notch.
But as the three siblings get older, the flaws in their respective personalities are gradually exposed. Aven, who loves his sister and is too gentle, Vivien Leigh, who Lawrence admires the most but is too upright, as for Charlotte......
Let's see what he says next.
"You have to be glad that you didn't take us to watch the execution since you were a child!" Charlotte couldn't help but shrug her shoulders and said cheaply, "Otherwise, with the ability of our three siblings, coupled with the ambition and cold-bloodedness of politicians, I guess you would have been hiccuped by us a long time ago......"
Lawrence was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, he pointed at Charlotte's nose and scolded loudly, "You little bunny is trying to me off!"
Rebecca, who was originally worried about Vivien Leigh, was also so angry that Charlotte couldn't cry or laugh, she covered her mouth and smiled and bent over, wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, "You talk like this! You little bastard, don't apologize to your father soon!"
Charlotte immediately bowed and apologized.
This is probably the reason why Charlotte is most liked by Lawrence and Rebecca, although most of the time what he does makes people cry and laugh, but it is precisely because of that behavior that makes parents feel truly happy.
Lawrence, who had long known about Charlotte's broken mouth, didn't pay attention to it, he glanced at Vivien Leigh's door worriedly, and said to Rebecca, "You go and persuade her, if it really doesn't work......"
He thought about it for a moment and said seriously, "It's a big deal that I won't hold a sword anymore in the future." As for the two of you......"
Lawrence looked at Charlotte and Claire with her head bowed, "Prepare my evening gown, Elbert will have a dinner at the palace tomorrow night, this banquet is very important, I don't want to see anything go wrong." ”
Claire nodded earnestly.
Charlotte, on the other hand, shook her head unhappily, "I'm sorry, I'm not in the mood." ”
Lawrence didn't speak, just stared at Charlotte.
"Alright!" Charlotte bowed softly, "I'll go to that boring aristocratic dinner party so that I don't have the bad name of being a loving father!" ”
Until dinner, Charlotte and Vivien Leigh did not show up.