Chapter 40: Heavy "Love"
1836, Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.
Franz celebrated his sixth birthday, and as was customary for the royal family, Franz had to leave the children's room.
When Franz left the children's room, Maximilian stared at Franz deadly, eager to get Franz to leave his kingdom immediately.
Maximilian, as the second eldest in the family, was one head short of Franz everywhere.
Everyone who came to the children's room would visit Franz first, whether it was a servant or a family member, and it seemed that everything was prepared for Franz, and he could only be second.
When Maximilian first visited the Hall of Mirrors, he was attracted by the bright and spacious hall, and Franz II sat on a high throne, which made Maximilian feel at ease.
He unconsciously wanted to ascend to the throne, but he was stopped by Franz II.
"Little Maximilian, don't go any further, you can't sit in this position."
But Maximilian did not intend to listen to the old man, and then Franz II said in a more stern tone.
"Louie, take him away and let him play somewhere else."
Archduke Louis stopped Maximilian and said.
"Grandpa Louie takes you to play, do you want to watch the parade, or do you want to ride a horse?"
Maximilian did not answer, but looked back at the throne unwillingly, and it was clear that Franz was sleeping on it...
was born from the same mother's womb, why is God so unfair.
BGM: Snowflakes fluttering, north wind Xiao Xiao. Heaven and earth are vast.....
When Franz left the children's room, he had his own room, the advantage was that he had his own territory, and the disadvantage was that he could no longer sleep with Taria's thigh.
Talia is also forced to leave the nest where she has lived for five years and move next door to Franz, after all, as a governess, she is obliged to take care of Franz.
Franz felt that the greatest advantage of leaving the children's room was that he could stay away from Mrs. Sophie's harassment.
However, as it turned out, Franz was still too young to know how terrible a woman would be if Sparta got up.
She is desperate for her husband's timidity and incompetence.
So, Mrs. Sophie focused all her energy on Franz.
The first thing Mrs. Sophie did was to have the large bed in Franz's house removed and replaced it with a cold marching bed.
"Franz! You must not be weak from now on! You have to fight like a man! This family needs you, and this country needs you! ”
Mrs. Sophie apparently wanted to infect Franz with her enthusiasm, but Franz was unhappy when he left the soft bed.
"But what does this have to do with the bed?"
"A warm quilt will wear down your will and kill your soul!"
“.... It's horrible, Mother. But this cold iron bed will make me sick, and the difficult environment will make people irritable, and it will be easier to be satisfied after success, and more likely to be depressed after failure..."
Franz explained that he honestly doesn't think it's true that the more bitter people are, the easier it is to succeed and the easier it is to go to extremes.
"You have too much nonsense, as your mother, you have to listen to me." Mrs. Sophie grabbed Franz in the face.
Franz covered his face and secretly said in his heart, "I said this earlier, I won't explain it." ”
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If it's just a bed, it's too much to underestimate Mrs. Sophie.
Franz's food has also deteriorated a lot, and in the past, Franz's food was personally taken care of by the royal chef.
And now that Mrs. Sophie has taken over Franz's food, she wants Franz to feel the suffering of the people.
As a result, some inexplicable food appeared on Franz's table, blood sausage, beef belly are all trivial.
There was actually a kind of porridge-like food, which Franz looked very kind, but the taste was really hard to swallow.
And it's not so much porridge as mush, a slimy semi-solid substance.
This is a food in the Austrian countryside and is made with things like wheat bran, cabbage, and bracken root boiled in water.
A by-product of wheat bran wheat processing, which is now often used as feed, has a bad taste and is a bit throat-scratching (I've eaten it. )。
After a few days of torture, Franz thought it was over.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Sophie planned to let Franz know about the customs and customs of various countries in the world.
First the UK, looking up at the stars.
Franz looked at the plate of dead fish, and he really had mixed feelings.
Then there was the Swedish canned herring, and the chef in the kitchen was afraid that Franz would eat it badly, so he deliberately heated it up...
And then an epic catastrophe struck... The stench is everywhere.. The servants had to thoroughly clean the kitchen and replace all the utensils.
Spanish cheese...
Japan's bonito...
But it wasn't Franz who couldn't stand it first, it was Talia.
As Franz's governess, she also had the duty of tasting food.
So for every dark dish of Mrs. Sophie, Talia is the first victim.
In the past, she naturally did not refuse to come to the big meals, but now the dark cuisine really makes her a little unbearable.
Finally, one day, Talia was poisoned by Madame Sophie's dark dishes, first suffering from diarrhea and then a high fever.
If Franz hadn't prepared allicin a long time ago, I'm afraid Talia would have seen God.
However, the first thing Talia did when she came to her senses was to ask Franz what she had given her.
Just as Franz was about to introduce her to his new product, allicin.
Talia stopped Franz.
"Don't say it, let me vomit for a while, I'm not pure."
Franz was confused, in fact, he also prepared penicillin, but first, the production was too small, and second, Franz did not have injection tools.
Unable to stand the horror food, Talia told Mrs. Sophie that she was going to resign.
I'd rather spend the rest of my life in prison than eat these horrible foods again.
At this time, Mrs. Sophie finally realized that she might not be a good cook, and that she might have gone too far in choosing food.
Instead of punishing Talia or sending her to prison, Madame Sophie gave her 500 florins and a week's vacation to eat and relax.
500 florins is not a lot at this time, it is equivalent to three years of wages for a worker.
Mrs. Sophie gave Talia a leave, but Franz gave her a new assignment.
After all, now Franz considers himself Taria's savior, and Talia has no choice but to do so.
In the absence of Talia, the governess, Franz felt that there was no need to write homework, so free.
But Mrs. Sophie did not intend to let Franz go, and she brought in a professor of linguistics, a true master, who was fluent in more than a dozen foreign languages.
Perhaps because the original owner's linguistic talent was very exaggerated, Franz quickly mastered the eight main languages in the Austrian Empire.