"Zhuo Yang, how do you feel about the story of our family?"

Zhuo Yang pondered for a moment and took a deep breath before speaking sincerely: "Your grandmother, that Lady Grace Meredith, is a very great woman, she is strong, beautiful, and brave, and she deserves the respect and admiration of all. ”

There was a look of approval in her eyes.

The origins of the Koko family have become household names in aristocratic circles, and it is not a secret even throughout Europe. But after listening to this story, everyone is admiring the dazzling halo of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Princess Sissi, envying the noble and pure blood of the Koko family, and lamenting the loyalty of the Liechtenstein and Monaco royal families to the emperor, but everyone can't help but ignore the most important woman among them - Grace Meredith.

In the story, Grace Meredith, who was born as a commoner, is rushed through a few sentences, and her experience is not in the main content of the story.

Grace Meredith was only 18 years old when she gave birth to Hubert, the widow of Crown Prince Rudolph, and she herself was an innocent little girl who was intoxicated with illusory love. However, a huge life change suddenly struck, her lover and other women died of martyrdom, and then overnight, her parents, mother and brother, who loved her the most in the world, were all killed, all relatives and friends were slaughtered, except for little Hubert who was held in her arms in a helpless position, Grace Meredith lost all her relatives.

No one knows what she has been through in the years since then, how a weak little girl and a baby waiting to be fed survived the cruel years of butcher's knives and demonic pursuits in those turbulent times. But you can imagine how much suffering and turmoil Grace has had.

Women are weak, but mothers are strong. Grace Meredith survived strongly, she was not knocked down by suffering, she was not crushed by hatred, she did not succumb to the persecution of fate, her greatness is the true brilliance.

But there are too many protagonists in this story, and they all have powerful names, and Grace Meredith is just the most inconspicuous supporting character. When everyone hears this story, they ignore her. But Zhuo Yang has the delicacy and sensitivity of an art student, he pays attention to details and respects emotions, so Zhuo Yang keenly discovered the most glorious character in the whole story, a great woman who can sing and cry - Grace Meredith.

Princess Sisi and Emperor Franz Joseph I had a son, three daughters and four children, the son Rudolph swallowed a gun and died himself, and the eldest daughter Sophia fell ill when she was two years old and did not survive. The second daughter, Gisela, was not in good health, and later she married the Bavarian prince and German field marshal Leopold, and the two had no children.

Rudolph is the third, and he has a younger sister Valerie behind him. Valerie married a Hungarian nobleman and gave birth to a son and a daughter, but the family was guillotined by the proletarian Jiē class during the Hungarian Soviet Revolution.

In this way, the Joseph family became the only blood descendants of Princess Sissi and Frank Joseph I, and there was no side branch except them.

Beginning with Hubert, the son of Grace Meredith, the next two generations were only single males, but the generations of women of Joseph's branch have scattered after marrying. Today, there are 22 surviving descendants of Hubert's bloodline, including their spouses, which is the full size of the Joseph family today.

For these families, Princess Sisi and Emperor Franz Joseph I were their glory, and it was also the iron scroll Danshu that they were revered in aristocratic circles, and it was here that the commemoration of their ancestors began. And the dead prince Rudolph is the scumbag ancestor they don't want to mention the most, and everyone will deliberately omit him when remembering their ancestors.

Grace Meredith is the most revered ancestor of the Joseph family, and they commemorate her with the most solemnity and sincerity.

Before the death of Grace Meredith in 1952 at the age of 81, her descendants always liked to revolve around her knees. The younger generations have received a good elite education because of their excellent growth environment, but they still love and respect their illiterate grandmother.

After the death of Grace Meredith, Joseph's family, no matter which family they were in, would increase their prayers and blessings for Grace Meredith after praying every Christmas Eve, as well as thanksgiving. Because it was on that Christmas Eve many years ago that Grace Meredith began a difficult escape with Hubert in her arms.

Without the strength and bravery of Grace Meredith, there would be no chance for their people to survive in the world.

Joseph's family has always wanted to explicitly proclaim the greatness of Grace Meredith, but to be honest, no one is interested in this except their family, and so much time has passed that it is impossible for people living in peaceful times to empathize with that era. What's more, Grace Meredith was still born in a commoner, no matter how she corrected her name after that, but it is a fact that she gave birth to an illegitimate child. When talking to the Joseph family, others will deliberately avoid this taboo and avoid the name Grace Meredith.

But the Josephians were so proud of Grace Meredith that they never forgot their roots. As a small but illustrious family, the Josephs had always had the desire to write a great story about Grace Meredith, and they wanted to sing the praises of this great woman publicly.

Zhuo Yang is a real person, although he is cunning, he is not tactful, and he does not know how to please the future father-in-law and mother-in-law, Zhuo Yang just does things according to his own heart. Thus, the story of Grace Meredith became the first step for the Joseph family to accept Zhuo Yang.

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"Hello, Your Excellency the Archduke of Austria."

"Hello, Dear Marquise."

Under the porch of Koukou's house, Zhuo Yang bowed to Koukou's parents in a proper manner.

"Hello, Mr. Zhuo Yang, welcome to our home. You're welcome, just call me Frank in the future. The future husband said.

Now that the formidant rituals of the past are long gone, it is normal for Westerners to call each other by their names after they get acquainted, and it is not surprising that many fathers and sons even call each other by their names.

"Don't dare, please forgive me for not being able to agree." Zhuo Yang said: "In our China, it is extremely impolite and absurd to call an elder by his name without honorific titles, and if I dare to be so presumptuous, my parents will not be able to spare me when they find out." ”

"If you agree, allow me to call you Uncle Frank."

"Hahaha......" Uncle Frank was amused by Zhuo Yang's seriousness and persistence. It is up to you that I respect Chinese customs. ”

Zhuo Yang handled the issue of salutation in this way very appropriately, not only to avoid the name that has been too solemn and cramped in the future, but also to express respect for Koko's parents, and more importantly, he showed that he is an assertive person, not following the crowd, and insisting on himself.

"Thank you, Uncle Frank." Similarly, after that, Zhuo Yang also called Koukou's mother Aunt Matilda, a Chinese flavor.

"Please come in, Zhuo Yang, let's talk at home."

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