Chapter 136: Two Letters
Dear Father,
I'm pregnant, and, as you hope, not Peter's child. Even though I know you arranged for that damn guy, I've never held a grudge against you. I understand your thoughts, the Kodor family should not have lowly descendants in this world, but alas, you did some, and some you missed. As I said at the beginning of the letter, I was pregnant.
He has the blood of the great Kodor family in his body, but also the blood of the lowly Guerts, and he should be, in your words, a half-blood mongrel. You can control my life, you can control my husband, but you can't control me and my soul.
My soul is pure, I have always believed in this, and this is what you and others are jealous of.
I am writing this letter not to prove that I am purer than you, but only to tell you that your daughter, Vivien, has finally embarked on the path you want to arrange for me.
I've heard that in the eastern part of the empire some women have stood up, calling themselves "fighters for women's power" and people call them feminist activists. The hypocritical villains of the New Party also expressed a positive opinion on this, I may not be a great politician, but I can be an outstanding female representative of the times. I'm going to answer the voices from the heart of the empire in the Turnier area, in the Canres area, and launch the feminist movement here.
I'm just informing you and don't ask for your consent. I understand that a politician like you has far less affection for his children than your position and power.
Of course, as your daughter, I hope you will bless me and bless my career.
This is something that it took me half a lifetime to understand, that if you don't fight, people won't think you're modest, they'll just think you're cowardly and incompetent.
I wish you the best of luck long enough.
May your bastards continue to harass you.
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Love your daughter.
Vivien.
The butler put down the letter in his hand with some embarrassment and stood aside. The contents of this letter were a bit excessive, and it was a bottle of poison to His Excellency the Governor, who was already almost paralyzed. The doctor had said that the last thing His Excellency should do at the moment was to get angry, which would affect the changes in the pressure in his blood, which could make his condition worse. Not a word in Miss Vivien's letter was anything good, it was something that made people angry.
Just as the butler was waiting for the Governor to vent his anger with swear words instead of his body movements, the Governor actually let out a laugh?!
Is this a sneer mixed with hatred and anger after a violent outburst?
Or is he really laughing?
The butler glanced up quietly, and at a glance he saw the Governor's loose skin, a ruddy color that lacked congestion, and his eyes that shimmered with a certain glow of wisdom and a real smile.
He's really laughing!
The Governor tilted his head, "Let me be alone for a while!"
The butler immediately withdrew, and as he stood in the doorway, he said, "In five minutes I will knock and come in." ”
This was requested by the doctor and by the Doge himself, and under no circumstances could he be out of sight for more than five minutes, but the Doge still loved his paralyzed little life, and he did not want to embrace God.
When the door was closed, the Governor was alone in the room, and he couldn't help laughing, for he had rarely been seen in years laughing so freely, almost close to unbridled laughter.
Every family wants a boy to be the inheritor of the career and the inheritor of the bloodline. After having a boy, they wanted to have a girl, and Vivien came into this world with such anticipation. She was the Doge's favorite daughter, and those bastards could not be compared to her. Even though the Doge wanted her to marry a nobleman of great fame, at her insistence, he agreed to her request and let her marry Peter.
This shows how much the Governor dotes on Vivien, so much so that he abandons marriage, which has a certain weight in politics, just to make Vivien happy.
Although he did things that didn't make her happy, such as having someone break one of Peter's balls and having the doctor cut one of the most important tubes in his reproductive system. He did this to protect Vivian, not to avoid having a descendant of his own humble origin, as Vivian thought. Yes, how could the wisdom of an old man fail to see Peter's purpose in approaching Vivien?
So he used this method to "protect" Vivien, and he believed that one day Vivien would understand, and that day had indeed come.
The Governor doesn't really care about where the "half-blood mongrel" in Vivian's belly comes from, the higher the status, the higher the level of contact with things, the more he can understand that the war between the old and new parties has actually come to an end. The old party rigidly maintained the "purity" of the inner circle, and to put it simply, if it were not for the old nobles of the empire, they would never be able to enter this inner circle, and they would not be able to become the top and core figures of the old party.
This article alone restricts the future development of the old party. On the other hand, the new aristocracy of the empire, the New Party, does secretly implement the concept of "non-elite and not high-level", but the range of choices available to them is too large. No matter what your background is, no matter what you used to be, as long as you are now recognized as an elite, you will have the opportunity to enter the top of the new party, into the real core.
Conservatism should be based on tradition, not such stereotypical prejudices.
The reason why the old party is still able to keep pace with the new party is not because of how powerful the old party is, but because they are just eating at the old roots. The capital accumulated over hundreds of years is slowly being consumed by them, and one day they will eat up their old capital, and at that time, it will be the time when the new party will have an all-round advantage.
Therefore, the Governor saw very clearly that the world ultimately belonged to the new party, to the new party, which did not care about the origin, did not care about the ingredients, and only absorbed the elite, not the old party.
However, he knew that such a thing would happen, but he couldn't change his position, because it was too late and he couldn't do it.
However, he hopes that some of his next generation will be able to stand up and become a different person, which can be said to be putting his eggs in the second basket, and it can also be said to be speculation on the future and the new party.
He noticed that Vivian had spoken of the feminist movement in the letter, and he had to say that the state of Canres was so remote that she didn't even notice who the initiators of the feminist movement were and who the participants were.
Yes, she didn't notice.
The initiator of the feminist movement is the granddaughter of one of the five giants of the old party, and many of the participants are women from large aristocratic families. You must know that women from ordinary families are either busy working to make money to support their families all day long, or they are busy spending their lives among their children, how many ordinary women have the time, money, and appeal to do this kind of obviously thankless thing?
No!
To put it simply, the feminist movement itself was a preliminary fornication between the enlightened people of the old party and the new party, and everyone was trying to find a new way out, so these women stood on the cusp of the times!
The Doge is glad that the Kodor family finally has someone who understands, though perhaps her "understanding" is out of anger at the past, anger at what is happening now, anger at the future that is not clear. But at least, she's on the right track!
The knock at the door woke the Governor from his musings, and he said, "Come in," and the butler pushed it open and stood by it, closing it softly.
"Take out the letter and pen, and I'm going to write a letter to Peter. ”
The butler immediately removed the letter from the cabinet, bowed down to his desk, and quickly recorded what the Governor had said. At last he read the contents of the letter and showed it to the Governor, before he put it in an envelope, dripped wax, and stamped it with a seal.
The letter was then handed over to the man in charge of external liaison at the manor, and then carried by a chauffeur through the two cities, and at noon the next day, it was delivered to Turnaire, where it appeared in Peter's hand.
Peter looked at the seal on the wax with a solemn expression, then cut off one end of the envelope and pulled out the letterhead.
His father-in-law, the Governor, rarely contacted him, but he knew very well that it was because his father-in-law didn't like him. The last time he was able to write like this was when he was elected mayor of Turner, so he didn't know what was said in the letter or what was going to happen to him next. He hated the feeling, the feeling of being teased by fate.
He spread out the letter paper with a faint fragrance and gilded edges, and the next second he overturned the table in front of him. Flower teas, pastries, spices and spices messed up his expensive carpet. The muscles on his face twitched uncontrollably slightly, and his heart was extremely angry!
"Didn't you say that no one had any contact with Madame?, and how do you explain the letter?", Peter casually smashed the letter into a ball and threw it at the butler who was standing aside, and the ball of paper slammed into the butler's muscular face, and then fell to the ground and bounced.
The housekeeper silently bent down to pick up the letter paper, crumpled it, and the first sentence was "Congratulations, you are going to be a father"!
There is no doubt that Lady Vivien's pregnancy has been known to the Doge, and how the matter will be concluded has little to do with Peter, and he has lost control of the matter.
This is also the most intolerable thing for him.