Mary wanted to retort that it wasn't necessarily, but she immediately remembered why Louie had stayed in the inner world—her throat was churning with a bitter smell, and she had been telling herself that Louie had stayed in the inner world for her, but she also knew that it was better to uncover the illusion of beauty— The reason why Louis disguised as a wizard to enter the inner world was because he was cursed, without the secret medicine of the Mancini family, he would inevitably face death, and the Mancini family forged the king's death for their own selfish interests and greed, so that he had to stay here, from a king to a wizard.

Louis is now the Grand Duke of Gayola, and as his leader and protector, the traces of the Mancini family are like fine sand in the wind, leaving no trace, half of which is an ambition that he can never give up, and the other half is not hatred for the Mancini family.

She remembered how her father and cousin had cursed her—they cursed her that the love she had earned by betraying her family and blood relatives would never last.

Nonsense, she thought, she was in Louie's arms now, his arms were so strong, his arms were so hot, one of their sons was an adult, the other was still in her belly, but he would be a big man to be reckoned with in the future.

"All right, Mary," Louis nudged her gently, "I've just come back, and I'm not very clean, and you're still with your child," he said, "I'll go take a bath, how about you go and see dinner?" Most of the wizards in the Low Countries are dark wizards, and as the bourbon of the Inner World, Philip VII will definitely not let Louis and the wizards face the mortal army, their enemies can only be those devils that even wizards are afraid of, even if they die, the power of the curse is still very considerable.

Louis is talking about bathing, of course, not just bathing, the wizards inherited the Roman and Celtic traditions about bathing, and because there are many curses that need to be dispelled by cleansing the body and soul, Marie took the verbena handed by the maid and gently whipped the body? And then only through the long corridors? Walking down the stairs? Go to the kitchen on the ground floor.

The kitchen is hot, swans, quails and partridges are stewed on the stove, cured meats and sausages hang from the stove, and pigeons are put in pies? The cook stirs the fish vigorously? Oysters are dug up piece by piece and boiled into soup with lemongrass? The juice of thyme is thrown into the heated wine, and rosemary is sprinkled on the mashed potatoes......

"Is this a potato?"

"Yes, ma'am. The maid replied respectfully—but Mary was under the impression of ...... No? Does Gayola have potatoes? This plant wizard is known earlier than mortals...... Yes, she suddenly became unsure, but when someone asked her if she put sage or basil in the cheese, she suddenly forgot about the potatoes? Changed to taste the cheese.

The rich smell of cheese and herbs has not gone away? She sat at the table with Louie, and there was a dazzling array of dishes on the table, "That's a rarity...... she said almost subconsciously? But it stopped quickly, and Louie always dined with her and her children as long as she wasn't on the expedition, sometimes even at breakfast, and what was she complaining about? Even Louis gave her a strange look—"nothing," said Mary uneasily, "I haven't seen you for a few days?"

"Counting today, it's seven days. Louie said.

"I felt like years had passed. Mary said, "Perhaps this is the whimsy of a pregnant man." ”

"Then it's winter," said Louis, "and the war in the Low Countries is over for the time being, Marie, and I won't leave Gayola for the rest of the time, and Luciano will soon be back, and then we can spend months together, and maybe I will be able to watch the birth of my child." ”

"That's great. Mary said weakly, "I hope so." ”

In the following months, Louis did fulfill his promise, and Luciano returned, he was already a young and beautiful young man, as expected, very much like his father, they lived a quiet and comfortable life, and the day was almost fixed, such days always made people forget the passage of time, before the spring came, Marie and Louis's second son was born, Louis had agreed with Philip VII, he would also have a duke title, but Philip VII could not give him a corresponding territory, in the watch world, he could not bear the surname of Bourbon, because Louis Dieudonnay Bourbon should have been a dead man, unless Louis is willing to let his son become the illegitimate son of his younger brother - no, Louie is not, not to mention that this child is also a wizard.

"I'll give him a new territory. Louis said, and Marie knew that this was true, because as the French army had conquered the Flanders, the world that the Flemish dark wizards had plundered for himself had also become Louis's possession, "Is it Hallepur?" asked Marie casually.

To her surprise, Louis paused suddenly: "No, it's a place in the Andrés." ”

"Why not Halepur?" said Mary, who did not understand why she said that, but she felt her eyes blur, and a boiling emotion rushed out of her heart, and her body trembled, and she felt great pain and sorrow in confusion and at the same time, "Why not Halepur?!

"It's not me," said Louis, "it's His Majesty the King, who made an alliance with the Serbian werewolves, and there he exchanged them for the werewolves." ”

"Is it Brelan?"

"It's Brelan," Louis replied, even more confused than Marley, and could only guess that Marley might have known about Brelan from someone else, and that werewolves were creatures of the Inner World, after all, "What's wrong?"

"How can you do that!?" muttered Mary, "how can you betray me and deceive me!"

"What's wrong with you?" Louie's voice came from a long distance, "What's going on?

"It's you, Your Majesty. Mary said, "Who else but you?"

"But I'm not His Majesty, I'm just Grand Duke Gayola. Marie's familiar voice replied, "I have not been Louis XIV since sixty years ago, but the wizard Louis Dieudonnay Bourbon." ”

The hazy fog lifted, and Marie found herself dressed in black, holding an umbrella of the same color, standing side by side with Louis outside a magnificent Gothic cathedral, with many people and carriages coming and going, but under the spell of the wizard, they could not see and hear them. Marie saw at a glance that this church was the exclusive resting place of the French royal family, St. Denis's Cathedral, and she had a chill down her spine, and she couldn't help but grab the people around her, "Who are we seeing off?"

"Who else?" said Louis, "my brother, Philip VII, His Majesty the King of France." ”

Mary looked around in horror, then Louie, she noticed that his sideburns had also appeared in strands of silver, and there were ominous fine lines at the corners of his eyes and lips, she clenched his hand, his hand was hard and his skin had begun to loosen, ah, she thought, Louis was also in his eighties, wizards lived longer and youth than mortals, but Louie had been mortally cursed several times, so that he was only slightly better than ordinary people, but not ...... Mary groaned, she, Mancini, and Gayola had countless potions masters who could prolong Louie's life and banish the Grim Reaper for him...... She thought so, but she couldn't help but grieve.

As if suddenly, Louis weakened, and she, and her and Louie's children, surrounded the bedside, she and Louie were the two calmest compared to the mournful crowd, perhaps because of the veiled relationship, she could not see Louis's face clearly, and when he stretched out his hand, she immediately held it tightly.

"What do you want?" she heard herself ask, "Do you need a priest to do the sacrament on your deathbed?"

"No, I am a sorcerer, a servant of the devil," Louis replied humorously, "I am doomed not to go to heaven." And I feel that I have nothing to repent of in my life, and there is nothing to complain about or regret. ”

"Yes, my majesty," Marie replied naturally, as if only then did she remember that Louis had taken back the throne, but not French, but Naples, and had sought all of Italy in doing so, and that he had done what several powerful kings had not done, but unfortunately he had not been able to get his original name back—and his brother could only be called cousins, not Louis XIV and Philip VII: "You have become as perfect as a saint." ”

"I'm glad to have you by my side at the last moment," Louis said, "whether it's Merlin or God, I'm going to see them." ”

"Go," said Mary, "Your Majesty, I will follow you." ”

"I love you, Mary. ”

"I love you, Your Majesty. "And always a little more than you." She was glad that Louie hadn't rejected her, and she felt the hand she was holding slowly losing its strength: "My love used to trouble you, Louie," she murmured, "Now I hope it will remove your crisis......" She stood up and removed the veil, but she still couldn't see anything clearly: "You won't die," she said, "Because you are not the Louie I love." She looked up: "Although everything is so to my heart's content, it is precisely because of ...... Because of this, I know that it is all false, and you do not know Louie, nor do you know me. ”

The people around her—their eldest son, Luciano, daughter, second son, and son...... Their friends, relatives...... Louis's loyal ministers and attendants...... They suddenly quarreled, and their words were wrapped around Mary's ears like fine threads, but Mary only smiled, and she dropped the vial of poison that the maid had prepared for her, raised her dagger, and slit her own throat.

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Louis jumped up from the bed, and Bonton, who was with him, was alarmed, and he jumped up like a sable that was always on the alert, and while calling out to the guards, he grasped the candlesticks and muskets—the candlesticks were sometimes better than daggers and daggers, and the tip of the candles was as sharp as a large needle, and the forked candle base served as a block, but when the attendants and priests ran in, they found nothing unusual.

"Your Majesty?"

"I had a nightmare," Louis said, looking at the priest and the last Vesalius who ran in, "No, wait," he denied, "I'm not sure, Vesalius, I had a very strange and real dream, Vesalius," he called again, "I ......" After a pause, "Can I know right away how Mary is?"

"Yes. "But I need some help." ”

"Go help him. The king said to the two priests, "Bontang, serve me and get up." ”

So the whole ship moved, the bow and stern were brightly lit, and soon the messengers from the other ships came to inquire about the situation, and the Duke of Orleans and the Dauphin Louis Jr. came running in person, and they found the king suddenly in a state of indescribable weakness, but Louis insisted that he was fine, but only ...... It was as if he had spent hundreds of years in a dream, and almost died in the dream, "and finally Mary suddenly ...... She suddenly slit her own throat, and before that, she thought I wasn't me...... It's just a fantasy of hers......" Then he was violently thrown out of the dream, and Louis didn't dare to think about if he really died in the dream...... Will he ever wake up? tired, old, weak, and have no regrets...... He seemed to have been able to finish his life, if it weren't for Mary...... And him, this is not his first life......

Louis did not continue, but his expression spoke for itself, the Duke of Orleans and the Dauphin looked at each other, sat down beside the king, and took his hand, and Bontang brought the king a heavy blanket, which Louis wrapped around his body, and immediately felt better.

In another room, Devisari and the priests looked no more ugly than the king.

Accident has happened to Marie Mancini.