"Your Majesty, please let me do my little bit for you!"

Looking at the honest maid Chanel, who had tears in her eyes, Agron was silent for a moment.

The sudden event made him a little difficult to digest all of a sudden, and he had to think about it carefully.

Could this be a test for the Austrians to see if they still have ambition in their heads? He thought first.

Shouldn't it be, is there any point in this kind of temptation? It's strange that I don't have ambitions, and I need some temptation.

However, everything has a contingency, and it would be naïve to completely trust the other party with just a few words and actions.

But he wanted to try.

The repression and resentment in his heart had accumulated enough that he would try even if there was only a glimmer of hope.

He is in a situation where he is isolated, in dire need of outside help, and even more so by a channel for exchanging information with the outside world.

Maybe that's the key step out of the situation.

So, he wanted to try it anyway!

Once he had made up his mind, he no longer hesitated.

"Why are you so loyal to me?" He asked.

The maid was slightly surprised.

"It's my duty to serve you, after all...... My father also served you. ”

"That's not a very solid reason." Aiglon shook his head slightly, then frowned at the pain in his body.

"Your Majesty!" Seeing his painful appearance, the maid quickly bent down again and grabbed his shoulder.

As she moved, the long hair under the turban swept onto his arm, and a faint scent spread to the tip of his nose.

But he was unmoved.

"But a dozen years ago, almost everyone in France swore allegiance to the Bonaparte family, and according to your logic, a new generation of French people will immediately pledge allegiance to me, but in reality this is completely impossible." Aiglon looked at Chanel's face coldly, "What exactly is what drives you to be so loyal?" What made you keep coming from Bavaria and waiting so long to come to see me? It stands to reason that you should not have received the favor of the Bonapartes. ”

Under Aiglon's cross-examination, Chanel was visibly embarrassed.

"You...... You...... Don't you believe me? She asked cautiously.

"I'm happy to believe you, but only if you convince me." Aiglon replied, "Say, what do you want?" For what reason are you loyal to me? ”

The maid did not answer, and in the cold light, her fair face was almost transparent, glowing with a pale light, and she looked a little pitiful.

"Do you want a title of money, or is it just for the sake of so-called glory? If it is the latter, I advise you not to take risks because of a momentary hothead, which is meaningless to you and very dangerous. "If you want a title of money, I don't have anything to give you right now, I can't promise you anything. ”

"I don't want any of these things, I have only one purpose, Your Majesty." Chanel replied in a whisper.

"What?"

"For revenge, Your Majesty." There was a little starlight in the corners of Chanel's eyes, but there was a little more blood in her tone, "I need someone to pay for my family's life." ”

Aglon paused.

"Did you just say that your father died in 1815, and that he died at Waterloo?" He asked after a moment.

"No, Your Majesty." Chanel shook his head, "He didn't die at Waterloo, he died at home, he died in his hometown...... He was lynched, and so were my family. ”

There was silence in the room.

"Allow me to finish with you." After a few moments, Chanel spoke again with tears in his eyes, "I am a southerner, my father was a retired officer, he did not join the army in 1815, he was tired of fighting, and just wanted to live a peaceful life with his family. But...... Those bastards, those executioners! They went around killing people, and they did not spare my father, they surrounded our dwellings and burned them all...... My parents, my brothers, my neighbors, my loved ones are all dead...... Only one aunt ran out with me. I was only a few years old at the time, and God knows how much she had to endure to get me out of the country! Fortunately, His Royal Highness Eugène took us orphans in and we were lucky enough to settle down, and my aunt passed away soon after, and before she died, she told me that we must take revenge and never forgive those sinners! ”

Then, she looked up at Aglon with an undisguised fire in her eyes.

That is the light of vengeance, that is infinite hatred.

"Your Majesty, we will take back the empire, we must kill them all, and kill them all! Do you say yes? ”

Aiglon didn't answer immediately.

He believed that what the other party said was true.

After all, if anyone can show such a real and terrible hatred in front of herself simply by acting skills, then she must be one of the best actors in history, and it is really condescending for such a powerful person to be a maid in the court.

So, according to her, her entire family died in the retaliatory massacre of Napoleonians in the south in 1815 by the royalists.

1815 was a disastrous year, with the Royalists ruling France, Napoleon landing and the Hundred Days, and then the Royalists coming back...... After the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo and the end of the empire for the second time, there were revenge massacres in many parts of France, some bandits and some royalists, but they were just as brutal and merciless.

[This is described in Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristo.]

Chapter 44 of the original text: "Yes, my lord, forgive me, but as you will know in a moment, what I have said cannot be saved." It was at this time that the famous massacre in the south of France took place. There were two or three tributaries, called De Teron, Duchyman, and Grapin, who openly assassinated people, and all those whom they considered to be suspected of the Napoleonic party were in danger of being killed. You must have heard of this massacre, Lord Count? ”

"I vaguely heard that I was far away from France at that time. Let's move on. ”

"As soon as I entered Nîmes, I stepped into a pool of blood, for with every step I came across several dead bodies, and the murderous robbers were still killing, plundering, and setting fires everywhere. I panicked at the sight of this sight of killing and destruction everywhere—not for myself (I was but an honest Corsican fisherman, with nothing to fear, on the contrary, and that was the most advantageous time for us smugglers), but for my brother, a soldier of the imperial era, who had just returned from the Loire army, and whose uniform and his epaulettes were enough to worry about. I hurried to the innkeeper. My guess was too accurate: my brother had arrived in Nîmes the evening before, and had been stabbed to death as soon as he had reached the door of the house where he wanted to stay, and I had tried my best to find the murderers, but no one dared to tell me their names, and they were terrified. 】

To be fair, the massacre did not last long, and although the Bourbons hated the revolutionaries and the Bonapartists, they did not want to see a great deal of chaos in France, so they quickly stopped the massacre and restored order.

Moreover, the revolutionary party commissioners were merciless in killing nobles and rebels, and later "counter-revolutionaries", and they were also often full of murder.

In a sense, the 30 years of the Great Revolution were like this, with mutual forgiveness, killing each other, and counter-offensives again and again, and finally creating an entire era of bloodshed.

So, for most people, it's just a trivial episode in history, a nightmare that has been forgotten and must be forgotten.

For some, however, they have lost everything.

Chanel's family is one of the victims of this little episode.

She is full of hatred, she wants revenge, but as a weak woman, she is absolutely powerless, so she wants the empire to be restored, with the help of the empire's power to counterattack again, and send all those enemies to hell.

She doesn't care who is right and who is wrong, who starts first and who has the best reason to kill, she just wants to pay for her family's blood debt.

In that regard, she wanted the empire to be restored more than anyone else.

Other words...... She is someone she can trust, and she is where her hope lies.

"So Your Majesty, you are my only hope......" Chanel's words also pulled him out of his thoughts. You will be able to restore the empire, I'm sure of it. So I beg you, trust me! ”

"Well, I believe you." Aiglon finally nodded slightly, "I hope to have your help, Xaneel. ”

Chanel's eyes widened, and for a moment, the combined grief and ecstasy distorted her beautiful face.

"Your Majesty!" She knelt on the ground almost desperately, "Thank you! ”

"Be quiet." Aiglon stopped her. "Now is not the time to get excited. Tell me, what's going on now, how long have I been in a coma? What happened in the coma. ”

"You were sent back to the palace in the morning, and now you have been in a coma for a night, and the imperial doctor has checked your injuries for you, and you have finally been rescued by applying medicine for diagnosis and treatment." Chanel calmed down, and then replied in a low voice, "Her Royal Highness the princess is very sad, she has been with you all the time, and the tears have hardly stopped, and at night everyone finally persuaded her to rest, and when she left, she was worried that no one around you would take care of you, so she left me ......"

That's what happened. Aiglon finally understood.

He didn't expect that he would do such a heroic thing.

Perhaps, what he said to the princess at that time was not entirely a lie.

In this place, he lacks friends, and he really doesn't want to see the only friend leave.

Maybe it's not just a friend......

The endless sleepiness and hunger suddenly made him uncomfortable.

"I'm hungry, you can get me something to eat."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Chanel stood up.

"Wait! From now on, you are not allowed to speak French to me here, nor are you allowed to call me Your Majesty, even when you are alone. "The more habits you form, the easier it is to slip out." ”

"I understand, Your Majesty." Chanel smiled, her original pain and sorrow swept away, "I'm just saying that tonight. ”

With that, she walked out of the room and came back with a new bowl of broth.

"Please open your mouth." She pulled up a chair and sat down beside Agron.

Then, she carefully fed the broth to Agron's mouth.

I have to say that although she is not very old, she is indeed quite professional, and under her service, Agelon feels very comfortable.

"Thank you." He whispered thanks.

"No thanks, Your Majesty...... It is my privilege to serve you. Chanel smiled, then felt that something was wrong, "No, Your Highness! Sorry, I made a mistake again. ”

Do you think I can really become His Majesty the Emperor?

The question crossed Aglon's mind, but he didn't ask it.

People sometimes need some obsession to live, if she believes that the empire is impossible to restore today, then I am afraid that she will have a direct nervous breakdown in the second second.

Therefore, even if it is for self-deception, she will believe with great enthusiasm that the empire will be restored, and the day of revenge will come, which is the motivation for her to live.

And that's what he can do with it.

Because he knows that hatred is more durable, more powerful and more worthy of life than love.