This surprised the king, he couldn't be sure if the other party was the kind of potions master he understood, but with the current level of medicine, if there was really that kind of medicine that could make people infected with dysentery heal instantly, or make the missing limbs grow back, I was afraid that the wizard had long been worshiped as the incarnation of an angel, so he quickly calmed down after a slight agitation, "Then why is he here?" he asked in a low voice, "How can he find you?" At the same time, he did not miss the trace of sarcasm in the man's eyes.

"He was my teacher. Mary said, "Before...... Something happened so ......"

"Let me tell you, Mary," the man interrupted Mary, "nothing to be ashamed of, Your Majesty, it was indeed an accident - I mean, I met my former student here, and it was not my intention, for I was tired of serving the powerful, and that is why I was banished from the inner world— The inner world no longer accepts me, and my family, and we have no identity in the inner world, the guards regard us as outcasts, we are banished, even beaten and imprisoned, and the most unfortunate thing is that the superficial world is constantly deteriorating, the medicine I make is not trusted, even if anyone wants to buy it, I don't have many materials from the inner world, my wife is seriously ill, my daughter is about to starve to death, so when I saw Mary, I put down my foolish self-esteem, and knelt down in front of her and begged for a piece of bread.

That's it, my purpose is not pure, Your Majesty, but also not greedy, I just want to live with my family. ”

With that, he bowed deeply to the king, and almost fell as he straightened up, and Louis looked at him, and gave him a piece of chocolate, "Eat this," he said, "and tell me what you can do." ”

The man had seen chocolate, chocolate in the watch world, brought back from the Americas by the Spaniards, and Anne of Austria, although so called, was the princess of Spain, when she married to France, she also brought chocolate to the French royal family, but for the people of the inner world, this swarthy fruit has long been the main ingredient in magic medicine, and it is even more common for a potions master, he took it and devoured it, and then finally had a little spirit and strength.

He went again at dusk to the king's inn, and this time he was not disturbed, as the king had ordered his guards, and in one room he laid out the medicines he had made on the crumbling table, most of which, as the king had expected, were of no use, or only to the people of the inner world— For example, potions used to replace blood in rituals, powders that can induce hallucinations, love pills made from fairies, dandelions that can make you likeable, foxglove, mandala, etc., which are used as poisoning agents...... The only thing that can interest the king is flying potions and stealth potions, which can be used not only on wizards, but also on mortals, but the problem is that the main ingredient of the former is belladonna, and the main ingredient of the latter is oleander, and both of these need to be applied to the whole body to be effective, not to mention whether there is such free time in an emergency, the poisonous ingredients of belladonna and oleander alone can be absorbed by the mucous membranes, and the special constitution of wizards ensures that they will not suffer from this, but for mortals, they may die at any time, and the duration of maintenance is shorter and less humble than that of wizards。

But the king still bought these two potions, as well as the ones that Mary thought she needed, but it was not realistic to let the Potions Master go with them, the first their team was not safe, the eyes and ears of the second bishop were always watching them, and Mary was his niece, of course, he could be tolerated, but not necessarily for a potions master who had been expelled from the inner world— Although Marie had repeatedly affirmed that her teacher was an extremely talented man, both the king and the man knew very well that a truly unique master would not be so easily abandoned by the inner world, and that he might be talented, but not so indispensable.

Before the king left, the sorcerer brought his wife and daughters to thank the king, and in addition to a bag full of gold louis, there was also a set of identification documents that the king had ordered the officials to sign for them, so that they could choose a place unknown to live in peace.

The king met his wife, who was said to have been banished from the inner world and had a great deal to do with her— As soon as Louis saw her, he understood that he had seen many beauties since he came here, from men to women, but the Potionsman's wife was not so much beautiful as a kind of delicate beauty, even if she was now pot-bellied and her face withered, she still could not hide that terrifying beauty, to make Louis describe her as a crimson rose with withered petals, even if she had lost most of her vitality, but still had an incomparable color.

But she apparently only loved her husband dearly, and so did her husband, and they stood there as if there was no third person around.

They already had two daughters, and one was in his wife's womb, the eldest daughter was five years old, but it was already evident from her facial features and facial contours that she had inherited almost entirely the beauty from her mother, her sister was still a child who could not even walk steadily, the eldest daughter Atenais was very bold, her eyes could hardly take off the king, her father asked her to salute the king, and after she had done so, she stepped forward and pulled the king's robe: "My lord," she said, "when I am grown, shall I marry you?"

Before the king could reply, "No," Mary, beside him, said categorically, "No, I will be the queen in the future, and I will marry the king." ”

Atenais didn't look very regretful: "It's okay," she said, "It's okay to be your lover." ”

"No," Marie continued, "and I'm the only lover he has." ”

"But you're not beautiful. The girl said seriously: "Nobles always deserve the best, you are not." ”

Mary almost became a pufferfish, and Louis couldn't help but laugh and gave the girl a gold louis: "You should live well with your parents until you grow up," he said, "You will meet a young man who loves you, and then marry him, have children, and have a good life." He didn't take Atenais to heart, for a five-year-old child would care?

It's just that what happened afterwards made Louie no longer remember this little turmoil.

The king's army was probably not as numerous as his father Louis XIII's guards, and in every place he went, he soon heard the rebels' slogans and the sound of guns, and the bishop's messenger would move them to another place, and they would gradually go farther and farther and more barren.

Louis once thought that the poor people of Paris were already quite miserable, but now he realized that the poor people outside were living an even more miserable life, and although the bread in Paris was expensive, at least there was bread, and the town they passed through before also had at least charcoal to bake the bread. There was no bread or charcoal, and people struggled to survive by prayer and "bread" (white clay and the last remnants of flour and bran mixed together), and the streets were littered with stiff, skeletal dead, and there was a wagon and two handymen who were equally yellow-skinned, but who pulled up the bones with ease, like a girl fiddling with her own dolls.

The convoy did not dare to stop in such a town, they ran through the squares and streets as if they were fleeing, and stayed only by the deserted woods or streams, but there were also many hungry people here, and when they were about to starve to death, these lowly people no longer cared about the law or the rules, and they first killed the oxen, horses, and donkeys that were cultivated, and then ate the seeds that were left behind, and the old men and children were the first to be discarded, and then the people who still had the strength entered the lord's woods, and when the animals in the woods were captured, they began to gather the fruitsWhen the fruit and leaves are eaten, they can only live on bark and nuts.

Louis couldn't let his servants find out the news, but fortunately he still had Marie by his side, and the little witch took a broom to find out the situation around him at night - this phenomenon was not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster - although the first Fronde rebellion made the king and the queen mother very passive, but not many towns, provinces and cities were affected, but the leaders of the second Fronde rebellion were the Prince of Condé, the King of Conti and the Duke of Longueville, and the first to be summoned were Bordeaux, Gienne, In the important regions of Poitou and Anjou, and in the provinces, cities, and villages outside of them, there were royalists who supported Louis XIV, pious men who were willing to pay allegiance to Cardinal Mazarin, and ridiculous people who preferred to obey the dictates of a woman (Madame Prince and Duchess of Longueville), or despicable villains who were bought by Gaston, Prince of Orléans, who had little in common, except for the fanatical and bewildered gathering of armies and the collection of money— But they didn't realize that their already meager reserves had been depleted in just a few months.

The campaign began in January 1650 and ended in July 1650, when the wheat and dried meat that had been collected and the peasants who were working in the fields seemed to suddenly disappear in a day,—— and the sharp-eyed people may have expected the famine, but many more could only watch the end in ignorance.

Louis could not do much, he could only ensure the supply of himself and the royal army, although the price offered by the accompanying merchants was almost suffocating, but at this time as long as there was bread was better than everything, so that the army that followed the king not only did not disperse, but also more and more, Queen Mother Anne once asked the king to disperse some people, but Louis was unwilling to agree this time no matter how much she pleaded, even if the pressure brought to him by these people kept him awake at night, now he was like a naughty boy with a sword, and the empty intestines of thousands of people were stubborn stones hanging from the hilt of the sword。

Louis had pinned his hopes on Charles II of England - he had already ascended the throne, but unfortunately the king's brother fought a battle with the rebel army at Worcester in August, and the whole army was destroyed, and even he wandered outside like a beggar for more than forty days before being recovered by his loyal courtiers, and he was still hoping that Louis would give him a little more help. It seemed impossible to get some wheat from England, and the only people Louis could rely on were Fouquet and Colbert, who had lived up to expectations by getting several boatloads of corn from Italy, so that the commoners of Paris finally had something to fill their stomachs, and this time they went to Italy, Spain, and Greece in the hope of getting enough wheat or anything to eat from there.