Chapter 25: William's Distress
The direct consequence of Joey's failure to become a god after April Fool's Day was that his mother, Princess Victoria, pulled out his messy bedroom.
The Crown Princess and her private secretary, Sir Stokema, went into town early in the morning to deal with the Foundation. When I got home in the afternoon, I found that my eldest son had not come back from the alumni of the University of Bonn, who had gone to look for him in the morning, and his daughters had taken advantage of today's bright spring to go on a spring outing to Wanhu, and her husband was locked in the study and was writing a report on patents, while the younger son was hiding in the bedroom and didn't know what he was doing.
The attendants of the imperial palace complained to the crown princess, and the father and son not only did not disturb anyone, but also had not eaten lunch yet.
For her husband, the crown princess personally delivered the meal into the crown prince's study, and after watching her husband eat while working, she hurried to Joey's bedroom.
For her son, the crown princess personally dragged Joey into the dining room and pressed her to the table, and after placing a beef stew with rice in front of Joey, she hurried back to her husband's study.
Just as Joey was having fun eating white bread dipped in chocolate sauce (yes, not white bread dipped in chocolate sauce) after eating the main dish, William also rushed into the kitchen.
"Hey, Jojo, you're here too, and you haven't had lunch yet?" After a hurried greeting, William turned to the cook and said, "Prepare me a lunch and red wine." ”
"Hi Willy, why haven't you had lunch until now? Also, Mom has just come home, and I don't think it's a good time for you to have a drink at the restaurant in the afternoon. Joy said.
"I'm having a terrible day, I'm going to have a drink, I don't think my mother will find out..."William looked at Joey, implying that his brother couldn't tell his mother.
"Don't look at me like that, I'm not going to tell you." Joey struggled to swallow the bread-wrapped chocolate sauce, took a sip of lemonade, and asked, "What's the sucks today, Willy?" ”
"Jojo, I'm in for a big trouble." William looked left and right and whispered, "You know what, your cousin Elizabeth is about to be married to Russia!" ”
"What, Russia? Cousin is going to marry that gray group of northern livestock? Joey's eyes widened and he looked at his brother in amazement.
"Grey cattle from the north?! Haha, Joey, I love the word you use, it's just amazing! That's right, that Sergey is a goddamn gray animal! William cursed.
"Sergey? Who is this guy? Willie, can you elaborate on that? Joey asked.
"Sergei Aleksandrovich, this gray animal." William spat out a name fiercely.
"Sergey ... Is that the son of Tsar Alexander II? Joey thought for a moment, then asked.
"Yes, it's him, and I had a private fight with him when he and his father came to Berlin for a visit. How dare that bastard laugh at my left hand! I unceremoniously taught the grey animal a hard lesson, and although he was older than me, I was not afraid of him! William drank the wine he had at hand.
"Ha, big brother, he dares to talk to you like this, I absolutely support you to beat him hard, next time you have such an opportunity, call me to go with me." Joey had an unfazed expression, "But, Willie, something seems wrong. ”
"How?"
"You see, Cousin Elizabeth's father is our Aunt Fritz, and Aunt Fritz's aunt is Sergei's mother. That is to say, Sergei, he is Elizabeth's cousin according to his seniority! This is completely a close cousin! Joey cried out.
"Isn't this normal, blood marriage, to ensure the purity of royal blood, the marriage of European royalty has always been like this, Jojo, what do you have to make a fuss about?" William looked at Joey with a strange look on his face.
"Oh, yes, people in this era don't know anything about hemophilia at all. And my great grandmother, who was particularly keen on promoting blood marriages in European royalty, would the world call her a European grandmother. Joey thought to himself, a little frustrated.
William looked at Joey, who was obviously distracted, and said dissatisfiedly, "Jojo, I'm talking about my big thing, what are you thinking?" ”
"Okay, Willy, please go ahead."
"Where did I just say?!"
"Just now you said that Sergei's gray animal wants to marry Cousin Elizabeth, and then what?" Joey helped William rearrange his thoughts.
"That's right, then.... Then I ran back from Charlottenburg. William said with a dejected face.
"What, Charlottenburg? Willie, at breakfast, you told your mom that you were going to meet your college friends! You're lying, you went to Charlottenburg, and it was an excuse to meet a college friend, but you actually secretly went to see your cousin. Joey chuckled.
"I went to visit a friend and passed by, just passing by." William awkwardly explained, "Don't laugh, Joey, I'm sick to death. ”
"Brother, do you want me to give you an idea?" Joey touched his nose and asked like a little fox.
"You?" William glanced Joey up and down, and said disgustedly, "At your age, do you know what love is?" ”
"Oh, is this underestimating me?" Joey looked at William and thought to himself with some annoyance.
"I may not know about love, but I happen to know some ways to deal with this kind of crisis." Joey tilted his head and squinted at William, and said, "You can't find anyone who can help you with your ideas in the matter of Cousin Elizabeth, why don't you listen to my method, maybe it will help you." ”
Joey now finally remembered the history of her cousin Elizabeth Alexandra Louise Alice's marriage, and the tragic end of her and her sister's children who ended up being thrown into the mines and buried alive during the era of the Russian Revolution.
Elizabeth's husband, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, was a ruthless and brutal man in the history of Tsarist Russia, who was recognized in the Moscow court as a fierce anti-Semite and butcher of the Muscovite populace, and of course this man died in the Slavic region, where certain elements in the tradition of greeting nobles, Grand Dukes, and emperors with pistols and bombs.
Elizabeth, on the other hand, was a beloved pauper in Moscow, and insisted on doing good deeds in Moscow both before and after her husband's death. Even after the death of her husband, she gave up her identity as a female archduke to become a nun and opened schools, hospitals and other charities. Her good deeds are recognized as a saint by Russians to this day.
If Queen Marie Antoinette of France was beheaded by the revolutionaries, it would be a little self-inflicted, but the fact that such a recognized saint and children were pushed into the mines and buried alive is a complete massacre by the Bolsheviks. It is a crime for anyone to massacre a woman or a child at any time and place.
"If William can marry Elizabeth, whether it is a blood marriage or not, will it be better than his cousin jumping into the fire pit of Russia?" Joey asked himself secretly.