Chapter 91: The Easter Egg and the Rabbit Down
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The Easter song is followed by a prayer of prayer, after which everyone shakes hands with each other and sends the most cordial greetings and smiles, which is also an important Easter tradition.
After the part of the Easter religion is completed, what is left is, of course, the crazy games for the kids.
The lawn of the palace under the sun was sprinkled with Easter eggs, and the children began to sweep with baskets, and the big ones were stronger, such as Joachim, and Joey's best friend Reddell and nephew Thomas, and the four of them competed to see who found more easter eggs in the hidden grass.
As for the girls and the little Wilhelm Ernst, they can only sweep the easter eggs laid in a prominent place on the lawn, not to mention that Ernst is only three years old, but in the basket dragged on the ground, there are no fewer easter eggs than his brothers and sisters.
So much so that the crown princess smiled and said to Princess Pauline, Prince Ernst's mother, "This little guy is meticulous in taking easter eggs, and he must be a big man in the future." ”
The Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was a principality in which women could hold half the sky, especially from the time of Princess Pauline's grandmother with her husband, Archduchess Maria Pavlova, the sixth daughter of Paul I of Russia, who personally led the Silver Age of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach.
The current Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach has the final say in the political affairs of the father-in-law, Prince Karl Alexander, while the finances of the Grand Duchy are in the hands of Princess Paulinne herself, and as for her husband, Prince Carl August, she is currently a mascot.
Princess Paulina accepted Princess Victoria's compliment with a smile, and then said, "Cousin, thank you for what you just told Carl and me, the police in the Grand Duchy have been paying attention to the people and things in SDAP, and now that the Prime Minister's "Anti-Socialist Extraordinary Law" is here, we can arrest that person in accordance with the law." ”
"Dear Sophie, in essence, I disagree with or even oppose the Chancellor's Anti-Socialist Extraordinary Law, and the right of German workers to strike should be guaranteed. But this possible strike was purely caused by me, and I just don't think the reason for such a strike is tenable. Princess Victoria explained.
"Because of you, what are you doing, cousin?" Princess Paulina asked with some curiosity.
"I had a private meeting with Mr. Liebknecht and his companions, and I hope that the activities of the SDPA that can strike or not strike can be suspended, and if there is a strike, they can talk to me and the crown prince privately, and we are willing to help them to mediate and minimize the damage caused by the strike. Don't look at me like that, there's no gossip, Sophie. The crown princess looked at Princess Paulinie with a curious look on her face with a slight dissatisfaction.
"Well, it's not a big deal to meet in private, my cousin, and for SDAP, in fact, my father-in-law and I are in private contact with them, and I think all the states in Germany that have industrial cities are in private contact with them. After all, everyone is afraid of the strikes they organize, they want to strike happily and strike if they are unhappy, and this lose-lose way hurts both the workers and the capitalists, while those who fan the flames in it benefit a lot. Princess Paulina said quickly.
"As for rights, I think they should learn to negotiate first, if there is any dissatisfaction, everyone should sit down and communicate first, and if it is really not a problem that can be solved by a company, you can go to the streets to put pressure on the prime minister's government. But what is the current approach of SDAP, no matter what the problem is, all strike first, and do not negotiate with you, SDAP has turned the strike into a tool for extortion. ”
"Cousin, don't pay attention to their threats, before they learn to sit at the table, like a civilized person, and learn to solve problems through dialogue, there is the Prime Minister and the law to restrain them, don't worry." Princess Paulina comforted.
"Dear Sophie, I admit that what you say is not unreasonable, but in any case, I support the right of workers to strike." Princess Victoria still persisted.
"Well, my cousin, I know your point of view, so leave these things to the men." With that, he pointed to the men who were standing in the distance and chatting together.
"Cousin, I want to ask you something." Princess Paulina suddenly approached the crown princess with a mysterious face, and said to Queen Augusta Nunu, who was picking up easter eggs with her son in the distance, and said, "Earlier, because you had a bad relationship with my aunt and grandmother, you didn't even visit you with me, but when we met for the first time today, I especially like your straightforwardness cousin, and I am also a person who can't hide what I have to say. ”
"Sophie, I also like your fast-talking personality, what do you want to ask?" The crown princess asked with a curious smile.
"Cousin, I heard that you are very strict with the crown prince's money, right?"
"Who is telling you these words? Sophie, that's not a thing. The crown princess's face turned red, and she immediately shook her head and denied it.
"Cousin, your expression betrays you." Princess Paulina laughed, looking at the crown princess with a flushed face, Princess Paulina grabbed the crown princess's arm with one hand, and whispered, "Actually, my Carl doesn't have a finny in his pocket, and I just canceled his authorization to sign a check recently." ”
"Ahh The crown princess looked at Princess Paulinie beside her in surprise, and asked in surprise, "Why is this?" ”
"I just can't see men spending money indiscriminately, I'm in charge of food and clothing, what money do they want?" Princess Paulina disagreed, shrugged her shoulders very manly and said.
"Oh, you're right! But why revoke Carl's authorization to sign checks? The crown princess had the feeling of making friends in her life, but she still asked curiously.
"Two weeks ago, someone told me about the equality of men and women in work, and I thought it made sense after listening to it, and then I went to Carl and told him, and he dared to contradict me, saying that women should stay at home and manage the housework of the whole family, and as for going out to work, it is a man's right, and it has nothing to do with women!" It had been several days, and Princess Paulina still said with some anger in retrospect.
"Since it's a man's business to go out to work and earn money, then the whole family spends the money is mine, and since I can only spend the money, then Carl doesn't need a Finney, let alone a check. Cousin, you don't know, the last few weeks have made him worried, he wants to find someone to borrow money but he doesn't know how to speak, maybe he will have to ask his cousin to borrow money. Princess Paulina said with a wicked smile.
"Hmm..... I think...... I don't have a single Finney on Carl in my family, and I'm afraid your Carl will be disappointed. After that, the crown princess laughed irresponsiblely.
Joey can't laugh now, because in the ball game, Joey actually lost.
In the grass in front of the easter egg game, Joey and the older children quickly got tired of playing, and I don't know who suggested it, and the four older children decided to have a game of getting out of the egg immediately. After finding a ramp, the four children took out the carefully prepared eggs from their pockets, and when Joey saw the eggs of the other three, his heart was broken.
The nephew Storling, whom he had just recognized, took out a green egg wrapped in thick oil paint, and it seemed that there was a layer of hard paper shell under the thick oil paint, Joey looked at Stoling's easter egg and asked weakly, "Is this an easter egg?" ”
Storin replied confidently, "There are eggs, there are oil paints, you can still see that this is an egg, since there are all of them, why not call them easter eggs, don't stick to the form, okay!" ”
"Okay, count you ruthless." Joey looked at the egg in Joachim's hand again, a huge goose egg with a thick shell, and Joey pointed to the yellow-painted goose egg in Joachim's hand for a while. And about Achim shrugged his shoulders disapprovingly and said, "I'm an egg, only oil paint and eggs, no other extra packaging, pure easter eggs." ”
"Okay, you're ruthless enough."
Looking at the easter egg in the hand of his nemesis Dreyer, Joey let out a sigh of relief, this is a red egg made of eggs, no heavy oil paint, no extra packaging, this is a simple easter egg, a pure and noble easter egg.
"Dirk, you still have the spirit of Fei Eppenlai, it's interesting enough!" Joey patted his best friend on the shoulder hard.
Then Joey took out his own easter egg, Joey's easter egg was painted black at the top and red at the bottom, plus the white color of the middle body, the whole appearance was the black, white and red color of the flag of the German Empire, plus the thick grease that Joey painted, among the four people's easter eggs, Joey felt that his easter eggs looked the best.
Without further ado, several people stood on the top of the slope and started the egg rolling game with the winner condition of whose egg rolls the farthest in each round, and the game was three rounds and two wins in three rounds.
In the first round, just one round, Joey's carefully prepared cheating old egg fell on the rolling road, and the eggshell shattered....... Of the other three, Dreyer came out on top.
Then came the crucial second round, Stallin relied on the strong packaging of his easter eggs, unlike the easter eggs thrown by others, he directly threw his easter eggs, and finally lived up to his wishes and won the second round.
Joey was stunned by Storling's throw, but it seemed to inspire Joachim, who in the third round, learned from Storin and bravely threw his goose-made egg before ..... There is no then.
Throwing a goose egg from the slope with all his might, what else can it be, naturally his easter egg is broken and can't be broken anymore.
When Joey saw this scene, he couldn't help but lie on the ground and laugh irresponsibly.
Similarly, Storling's easter egg with cardboard shell bonus protection has also completed his last journey, and no protection can withstand continuous throwing.... This scene also made Joey's stomach ache with laughter.
But seeing Dreyer's Easter egg, Joey couldn't laugh, also at the last throw, Raeder's Easter egg rolled out of the distance, no less than the Easter egg thrown by Storin and Joachim. The most amazing thing is that the eggshell is still intact....
Joachim and Stolin looked around Dreyer's eggs for a long time, but they couldn't find any clues, but when they asked Dreyer to eat their eggs according to the custom of the victors, when Dreyer refused to eat them when he was awkward, Joey finally smelled a strange smell from Dreyer's broken eggshell.
After some torture by several people, Dreyer finally admitted that his easter egg was also a cheating "chemical egg", which he had boiled in lime water and then added a layer of his sister's clear nail polish.
After hearing this, Joey lamented, "I said that there is a problem with the old eggs I made!" I added salt, and I added it completely wrong...."
"Shameless!" This is what Achim and Stolling share about Joey.
"Stupid!" This is Dreyer's opinion of Joey, and then he didn't forget to make up for Joey, "Salt is added to make the egg protein coagulate faster, not to make the eggshell thicker!" Joey, you're learning chemistry for nothing! ”
"William, aren't your previous ambitions in vain? You have not been attending the Prussian Student Officer Corps for so many days. From the Grand Duchy of Baden, Prince August, William's best friend, asked suspiciously.
"No, it's just that I'm busy with other things." William said a little absent-mindedly, his mind was completely focused on the direction of the gate of the Imperial Palace, and his expression was obviously waiting for someone.
"William, who are you waiting for?" Prince August followed William's gaze, but did not notice any carriage heading towards the palace.
"Oh, Friedrich, I'm waiting for a friend." William was visibly speaking to his best friend in a perfunctory tone.
But Prince August didn't take it to heart, but continued the previous topic, "Hi, William, Philip let me tell you one thing, didn't the emperor arrange a chamberlain for you recently, Philip said that his good friend is also in your list of chamberlains, and asks you to choose Philip's good friend when choosing." ”
When Wilhelm heard a message from Philip Chu-Oylenburg Hertfeld, his introduction to the Prussian student officer corps at the University of Bonn, he was visibly focused and asked Prince Auguste, "Who does Philip want me to choose as an attendant?" ”
"Philip's friend is called von Moltke, the nephew of the Chief of the General Staff, who is now his adjutant Moltke Jr." Prince August said.
"Little Moltke is coming to be my attendant? Wouldn't it be nice for him to be his uncle's adjutant? William looked at his friend with some confusion.
"This is what Philip meant, Philip said, you haven't paid any attention to club activities recently, you have completely changed from you before, and you have been either in the palace or in the palace recently, these two places are not places where Philip can come and go casually, Philip said that he is worried about you."
"It just so happens that little Moltke is his friend, and it just so happens that the emperor is looking for an attendant officer for you, so he thinks that it is beneficial for the community to let little Moltke be your attendant military attaché." Prince August poured out all the stories behind it in one go.
If it was before, William would definitely agree without hesitation, isn't it the boss of his own club who arranges a reliable person for himself. But since being hit in the head by Joey because of the incident of Elizabeth's father, William's simple brain seems to have an extra nerve, and he will think more about everything.
"Philip, is this worrying about me?" After thinking about it, William suddenly felt a sense of distrust, and then asked Prince Auguste, "Friedrich, did Philip say anything about not going to the club for the past few days?" ”
"Speaking of nothing, Philip is in a hurry not to see you, so he asked Moltke Jr. to apply for your attendant attaché, and it is said that he also followed the path of the red man General Wadsey in front of your grandfather. It just so happened that General Wadsey was also a popular man in front of Moltke's uncle, and Little Moltke was called by General Wadsey to have a deep talk, and then he was successfully on the list of your attendants and military attachés. "Prince August didn't care, and told all the inside story he knew.
"Friedrich, do you think Philip is paying too much attention to me?" William asked his best friend.
"There's nothing strange about this, you are now the second in line to the throne of the empire, everyone knows that you will be the emperor in the future, and now they care about you and pay attention to you, it's too normal." Prince August remained indifferent, and then whispered, "Besides, now the Emperor is starting to use your father again." August bowed to the people gathered around Crown Prince Frederick.
"Now we all know that your father is a hit, and everyone wants to get together, but your father has been using old friends and acquaintances for most of the month, how can new faces like Wadsey, Moltke Jr. and Philip come to your father's side, so it's normal to lean on you."
"William, don't think this is abnormal, in fact, everyone is doing this, like my father, doesn't he also let me lean to you, Chancellor Bismarck always declares to the outside world that his son "Rabbit" Herbert is your close friend, but in our circle, everyone knows that you don't like Herbert. Prince August continued with a big grin.
After talking for a long time, but found that William was still listening to his speech absentmindedly, Prince Auguste rolled his eyes and whispered to William, "Recently, there has been a strong lace news about "Rabbit" Herbert in Berlin, do you want to listen to it?" ”
"Friedrich, you always have endless gossip, can't you be chasing after the rabbit again? William said disdainfully.
"William, it's true, do you know why the Prime Minister didn't attend the Easter party here today?" Prince Auguste paused slightly, and whispered with a wicked smile, "Herbert is in love with a woman ten years older than him, and it is said that the old prime minister knows about it, and yesterday Philip said that the old prime minister has quarreled with his son in the past few days. ”
"Who is Herbert in love with?" William asked in surprise.
"Countess Elisabeth Boyten, wife of Lord Countess Ernst von Boyten, Sicilya, is the same dance partner that Philippe recommended to Herbert at the last officers' ball." Prince August reminded.
Didn't Philip mean it at the time, how could the "rabbit" be taken seriously? William exclaimed.
"Who can find out Philip's character, and he also said that he is a good friend of "Rabbit", it is said... I've only heard that he secretly stabbed this to the "rabbit", the difficult dad. Prince August said with a mysterious expression.
"For a position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Philip is for me, and he wants to kill Herbert." William suddenly sighed with emotion for no reason.