The fireplace blaze, jumping high and low, gilding their faces with a dark red light.

William snorted, full of hatred and contempt, and said, "I know where the gold in the hands of these devils came from. After the establishment of the dictatorship, the Bolsheviks began to seize the assets and estates of the nobles, officials, and capitalists on a large scale, and looted all their family property; And those gold, silver and jade, valuable jewelry, and precious jewelry with a long history have naturally become the wealth of this evil dragon in the riots and killings. The wealth of these aristocratic and wealthy families has been accumulated over decades or even hundreds of years, and their wealth is almost incalculable, and the Bolsheviks have robbed them of this gold and jade, so that the situation of collateral with precious metals can appear again. ”

Hearing William's words full of class antagonism, Qingying couldn't help but pout in her heart. In the previous half century, the prosperity of the hundreds of thousands of people in the upper strata of Russian society was only established by the hard work and sweat of more than 150 million people at the bottom; Had it not been for the irreconcilable acuteness of social contradictions, the Bolsheviks would never have responded to the revolution and overthrew the Romanov regime, which had ruled Russia for more than 300 years, in less than ten days.

However, considering the class and camp in which he and William lived, Qingying could only throw aside the dire suffering of the Russian people, echoing and denouncing: "What Caesar said is extremely true. According to the reports sent back by my men from Russia, the Bolsheviks not only plundered all the property of the royal nobles, but also set up a so-called 'people's tribunal' with the main theme of the tyranny of the hysterical majority, and carried out the brutal and brutal murder of those who had fallen in the revolution. In this liquidation campaign. A large number of aristocratic elites were persecuted. Thousands of people were put into liquidation after being labelled 'reactionary bloodsquire'. Among the victims. Many of them were positive figures who had once enjoyed a good reputation in the country: the most representative of them was Elizabeth, the wife of the former Moscow governor-general, Grand Duke Sergei? Fedorovna? Romanova too. ”

Somehow, William's expression suddenly stiffened in an instant.

Qingying did not notice William's anomaly, but continued to speak while combing through the information in his mind: "Although Grand Duke Sergei was notorious for his arrogance, cruelty, and incompetence during his tenure as Governor-General of Moscow, so much so that he was at the top of the assassination list drawn up by the Social Revolutionaries twenty years ago; However, in contrast to himself, his wife, Elizabeth, was loved by the public for her charity to the poor. In order to avoid her being affected in the assassination of the Grand Duke, the Social Democrats even specifically advised her not to ride in a carriage with the Grand Duke, and she was spared the assassination of her husband in February 1905. But this is such a lady who is dedicated to helping the poor. But after the Bolsheviks came to power, she was murdered: they arrested her on charges of being a 'family member of a counter-revolutionary accomplice' and brutally buried her alive. Even those who had volunteered to mourn with her help were taken into concentration camps by the Cheka as hostile elements, and once inside, there was little chance of escaping hell. ”

The pendulum ticks, and the machinery chimes. After a while, William did not move at all. Qingying looked away with some confusion, but was stunned to find that William's face was full of unbelievable pain and sorrow; His lips twitched, and he spoke in a hoarse, low voice, "Alice...... Elizabeth, dead? ”

Qing Ying was shocked when she saw this. Never since he had traveled to this era had he seen William look so almost vulnerable. He nodded slightly. "Elizabeth, who was praised as a saint by the Russian people, has indeed died at the hands of the Bolshevik executing soldiers. As far as I know, she was originally the daughter of Dwig IV of the former Hesse Highway in Germany, and then married into the Russian court......" Speaking of this, Qingying's heart was shocked, and she blurted out: "Is there also a past between my father and her?" ”

William's eyes were empty and scattered, and thousands of thoughts overlapped and changed; I don't know how long it took for his mind to gradually calm down, but in the depths of those gray eyes, there was still a deep sadness that could not be erased. Looking at the surprised face of the young man in front of him, William smiled bitterly and said, "This is all nearly forty years ago, and I have never mentioned it to anyone before. Now that you know some of the secrets, there's no need for me to keep them a secret from you. ”

"It was the winter of 1876, the fifth anniversary of the founding of the German Empire; The princes and nobles of the federal principalities gathered in Berlin to celebrate this historic occasion. As the eldest son of my father, Frederick III, who was already the Crown Prince at the time, I also began to play a more important role in such social situations; I warmly communicated and received all the kings, grand dukes, dukes and their families who visited. Among the many nobles who came to congratulate, I saw her figure. She was wearing a white dress and smiled at me, and it was this smile that I will never forget to this day. ”

William said softly, with a look of nostalgia that was unimaginable on his face: joy, sorrow, sadness, sadness...... Many emotions came up together, and the memories of youth that had been deposited for decades immediately filled his heart. At this moment, he has completely indulged in the whirlpool of memories of the year, mixed with joy and sorrow, and does not vomit or be unhappy.

"I was 17 years old that year, and I was undergoing a rigorous military education under the teachings of the Holy Emperor, and I was determined to become a generation of saints like him; The love for men and women has always been scoffed at, believing that it is a decadent and depraved behavior that loses the will to make progress. On weekdays, I have seen young girls who are even more beautiful than her, and I have never felt anything; But when she appeared in front of me and smiled at me, my mind suddenly emptied, and in an instant I felt that all the voices of the people around me had disappeared, and I could only hear the sound of my own violent heartbeat. ”

Listening to William reveal the secrets that he had hidden in his heart for many years little by little, Rao is Qingying was used to seeing big scenes, and was also shocked by William's abnormal behavior. Calculating the time, it has been more than 20 years since he crossed into this world, and William has always given him the impression of being majestic and domineering, wise and decisive, and he has never seen him exude such a soft temperament. A thought suddenly flashed in Qingying's heart, how much of the real history has been buried in the dust and sand by future generations?

The corners of Wilhelm's mouth hooked a slight arc, as if reminiscing about the eternal scene of that day: "Since that day, in addition to the revitalization of Germany, I have another secret in my heart that no one knows, that is, I must marry her as my beloved wife." Later I learned that her name was Elizabeth, the second daughter of Aunt Alice, and my cousin by blood. Although I knew that the marriage of close relatives would harm my children, I was full of her shadow at the time, and I couldn't care so much. Now that I think about it, the youthful impulse of a teenager is always so irrational, and my intelligence at that time really fell directly into a negative number, and there is no more prudence in the past. ”

"At that celebration, I had my first contact and conversation with her. And when I learned that she had no lover, I vowed in my heart that I would capture her heart with the best achievements of the young generation of the German court. As I watched her carriage slowly depart from the gate of the Imperial Palace in Berlin, where the celebration had ended, in addition to the sentimentality of reluctance, the fire that burned in my heart was that it was time for me to do my best. Whether it is to defend the honor of the emperor's eldest grandson, or to gain the favor of my beloved, I will become a young star that the whole of Germany will praise, and there is no one! ”

"From then on, I began to study my homework even harder: I used to finish at 6 p.m., and I didn't stop until 11 p.m. I still have a professional level of equestrianism in my hand today, and it was at that time that I laid a solid foundation. After a year of unremitting efforts, I was finally rewarded: the Holy Emperor praised my cousin and made me second in line to the throne after my father, and the Faculty of Law and National Studies of the University of Bonn sent me an offer of admission. Under the oil lamp of the palace, I finally wrote a letter with a trembling hand to my cousin, and my heart was torn between happiness and tension: the 80th birthday of the Holy Emperor was approaching, and the whole of Germany would come to court again, and I wondered if she would come to Berlin with her family, and whether she would accept the heart of my cousin. ”

"Soon, my cousin replied to my letter. She would come to Berlin with her family to offer her blessings to the Emperor, and there was no obvious rejection of my wishes in her writings. I revisited this reply more than a hundred times over the next few days. Although I was slightly disappointed that she did not accept it immediately, I soon regained my fighting spirit: if she came to Berlin, I would make her no one else's sight. ”

Hearing William's words, Qingying sighed slightly in her heart, William's heartfelt emotion, but the final result was nothing, so that the beauty was finally abducted by the hair of the East.

Sure enough, William's words gradually turned low, and he said slowly: "After several years of great rule, Germany has faintly had the tendency to become the first power in Central Europe; Not only did the domestic states attach great importance to this birthday of the Holy Emperor, but even foreign powers also sent special delegations to celebrate. Russian prince Sergei? The Romanovs, on behalf of their father, Alexander II, were warmly received by the Reich; And it was at that banquet that my cousin, who had come to see me, fell in love with him at first sight, and I became a complete third party between them. (To be continued......)

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