The old king later asked Elena, "Do you find Frederick attractive?"

Elena didn't know why, but replied cautiously: "I remember that he has good political achievements, and he also has the eight virtues of being a knight, and he is a man who will gradually become stronger. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAs for his face, I don't remember it very clearly. ”

She looked closely at her father, and when she saw that the old king heard "I don't remember his face very clearly", she was visibly relieved, as if she had let her guard down.

"That's good. Don't be fooled by a man's face. You can't see through a man's heart at all, and the most elegant smile may hide the most filthy motives, because the devil is used to parasitizing in beautiful skins. The old king carefully admonished his daughter, "Only a person like me, who is about to enter the earth, can distinguish between good and bad people, and I can see at a glance which people are good for you and which ones have intentions for you." These words are the blood and tears that my father exchanged for his life and life, if you go in with your left ear and out with your right ear, it won't look like a person. ”

"I know, Daddy," Elena was about to cry, and even called out "Daddy", just wanting to end the conversation and run away, "I didn't contradict you either." ”

"I'm just giving you a shot. Frederick, that poor boy, can't take his eyes off you, that's just right. There must be a contender to remind Prince Ferdinand that a ton of gold as a dowry seems too little...... Today I asked them to meet in the afternoon, and Ferdinand proposed an increase in the dowry in the evening, and it was evident that everything was as I expected, and he wanted to get engaged early! But I naturally had to be vague, and I wanted to dry him, and this fellow panicked, and naturally spit out more gold. The old king boasted proudly, and when he saw his daughter bowing her head as if she was crying, he walked over and hugged her warmly, so that Elena almost died: "My daughter! Only you, Elena, are all your father's pillar and hope to live. The motivation for my breath comes from you, you can marry a good king, let the HRE Empire reunite, and let those princes who despise us see that the majesty of the Habsburg Dynasty is beyond their reach! At that time, the whole world will know that we are roaring blood lions, and those princes are nothing more than ants showing off their might! Elena, you are my last dignity, if even you do not fight with me, I don't know how to live. ”

Elena cried wet the old king's shirt, and she choked up, "Daddy, I didn't contradict you either." ”

"I know you're a good boy. The king patted her on the head and pushed his daughter away: "Go and take care of the government, I will study the rise and fall of bonds." If this transaction goes as I expected, I will be able to make back the lost gold in one go, and I will still be profitable by the end of the year. ”

"Don't buy bonds anymore, those ups and downs are not something you can control, our spy agencies are not as efficient as others, and the intelligence is old. Elena cried, "There are not enough taxes, and the debts are owed in two years." ”

"Trust your father," the old king kindly touched Elena's head, "I can earn it back." The previous loss was too greedy, just a small mistake. ”

The candlelight flickered, and the silver-haired queen moved out of the dormitory, and said coldly: "If you want to buy bonds alive or dead, you will lose so much that you can't even afford to pay your military salary." If you don't owe Braischroeder this debt, you don't have to rush to marry your daughter. ”

Suddenly there was a thunderous roar in the dormitory, and Elena was so frightened that she burst into tears, and everyone shuddered.

The old king looked at the queen angrily and shouted: "You know finance? You know everything, why haven't I seen you as a king? Are you satisfied to be a king who makes ends meet? Look at the decoration of the Palace of Versailles! Look at the pomp and circumstance of the British fleet! Look at this gap! I don't know if you are ashamed or not, anyway, I am already ashamed of myself! They are all emperors, and I might as well die if I am compared to them!"

The silver-haired queen trembled, ignored the old king, and walked straight to Elena with pear blossoms and rain, looked at her, stroked her cold face, wiped away her daughter's reflective tears with her thumb, and encouraged her softly, wanting her to rejoice: "Honey, go back and rest." I'm already looking for a music teacher, and it's ...... to have a royal teacher to guide you."

"Sing!" the old king slapped the pencil on the table and flew into the sky: "You have lived half your life in vain? How good is your singing? Those popular singers are eager to be dragged into the bed of the nobility, and they will be happy to be the mistress of the duke! Is your royal education to let Elena be a high-class prostitute!"

Elena shuddered again. She saw her mother touching her cheek with tears full of humiliation, and choked up and said, "Go back and rest, Elena, if you are happy...... It's good if you're happy. ”

Elena couldn't stand anymore. She wanted to run away with her mother, but no matter how far she went, where could she escape. This is a beautiful palace, how can they whimsically escape from their families. But she couldn't stay any longer, so she nodded obediently, lifted her skirt and hurried away, and looked back as she descended the stairs, and saw her mother standing in the candlelight, watching herself, and behind her was the bright lights of the palace, and the sulphurous hell of rage.

Elena felt like she had abandoned her mother, but she ran away anyway.

The tears that had been wiped away by my mother flew out again. The more she loved her mother, the more she annoyed her father. But the anger seemed to burn her conscience and morality, for the more she annoyed her now strong father, the more she owed the gentle father she had been ten minutes ago.

Elena, you are my last dignity and pillar, and if you don't all work together with me, I really don't know how to live.

"Father, kill me. Elena thought pleadingly.

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Lily, the female officer in the clothes, caught Her Majesty in front of the fountain pool, hugged the Empress hard, and skillfully stroked Her Majesty's back: "Okay, okay, everything will be fine after a good night's sleep." Elena is the best emperor I've ever met, even if it's a little pleasing little fetish. ”

Elena didn't control it this time, and only raised her head when the shoulder veil of the women's dress was wet, and her eyes were red and said, "As far as your mouth is sweet, you are the best at sycophancy." ”

Lily said proudly: "You can't do without sycophants, scolding me is scolding yourself, don't you want to burn jade, right?" Elena, who was grinning and rubbing her eyes, stopped and walked back to the dormitory, picking something interesting and saying to Your Majesty: "There will be a magic show tomorrow......! But it's also great to be able to watch tricks by the way! People who can do magic have elven blood, and those tricksters must be very handsome. Feast your eyes tomorrow. ”

Elena remembered that the old king had invited Frederick to watch the magic show, and her heart was so happy that she floated up like a bubble, and she couldn't suppress the joy with a "coo-goo-to-goo," and then she thought that Rita would soon be in a state of motion, and that she was about to propose to Frederick in a curso-curricular way, and that her heart was "grunting" back into the water, and she looked down and bit her fingers and thought, "Will he agree?"

"Oh, after Rita's little hoof inherited her aunt's inheritance, she quietly dumped the Praetorian Guard lieutenant. Sure enough, when a woman is rich, she becomes bad. ”

"Rita, is there a man?" Elena almost fainted, and her sudden happiness spewed out like fireworks, as if her heart had melted into flames and rose into fireworks in the night. She blushed and shook a little, trying to pretend to be serious, her voice shrill and thin, but she couldn't spit out the shameful words when she turned her head: "Then Rita is not ......"

"Who knows, it's a little prodigal anyway. Lily shook her hands behind her back, shook her body proudly, and tilted her head to look at her beloved friend: "It's just that she has won a lot of popularity with a large inheritance, and she is not worthy of a serious royal nobleman, let alone marrying an earl......"

Lily grinned and squinted at His Majesty, who was pretending to be serious, and bumped her mischievously on the shoulder: "Do you want me to tell some earl that Rita is a little prodigal, lest you get sick." ”

In just 60 seconds, Elena's heart went up and down, sometimes floating in the clouds and rolling, and sometimes falling into the bottom of the sea and frozen, and now frowning and thinking about it, she realized that Rita was not some terrible rival in love, and her mood was rippling happily, and the "sense of security" continued to heal her, wash away her nervousness and exhaustion, and itch to warm her body skin, like the lively foam that gurgled out of the hot spring when bathing.

She thought about it carefully for a long time, only to find that Lily was staring at herself slyly, and suddenly remembered that the joy, apprehension, and joy just now all fell in Lily's eyes, and somehow, she suddenly exploded full of shame, and there was a kind of shyness that the cheating was broken, and she beat Lily hard with fear and beauty: "I'm not sick!" ”

Lily sighed, rubbed her shoulders and said, "You hurt me, I won't report it." ”

"Hey!" Elena muttered as she pulled Lily's arm and muttered, "Go tell him...... He saved us, what if he was hit by the cheating storm after marriage, he would have gray hair. ”

Lily crossed her waist, closed her eyes and coquettishly said: "My shoulder hurts, I want to rub it." ”

His Majesty the Emperor actually rubbed the shoulders of the female official in the clothes seriously, and added a set of small hammers, which fell on the itch, knocking Lily's heart relaxed.

Lily looked back at Elena and saw that she was in a happy mood, and she couldn't help but play with Elena with joy: "Okay, you give me an order, who do you want me to tell me?" and I whispered in his ear, 'Rita is a little butterfly, watch out.' '100 shots, 100 hits, the mission will be achieved. ”

Elena opened her eyes wide, her mouth open, and she was dumb for two seconds, and then suddenly picked up her skirt and chased after Lily: "Don't you know your name? ”

Lily dodged her claws and giggled and ran to the dormitory, laughter spilling all over the floor.