Eagle’s Glory

Just as Edmund Dantès, following the master's orders, started special events in Paris, Aigron was staying in Ioannina, running his own territory.

With the passage of time, Teresa's stomach became more and more bulging, and her movements became more and more inconvenient, and she has been reclusive. And Aigron has always intentionally set aside time in his busy schedule to accompany her, coax her to be happy and relieve her boredom.

Although he already has a child, he has never witnessed any moment when Corristel was conceived to give birth, and until now he does not know what Corristel looks like, so he did not "become a father". "Reality.

But this time was different. He witnessed Teresa's process from pregnancy reaction to childbirth. In a few months, he will witness the birth of his child. This is the first time he has experienced becoming a father. experience.

Moreover, Teresa is his wife, which means that the child she bears must be highly expected by his supporters, and the meaning is very different.

Both Teresa herself and other members of the Bonaparte family were eagerly looking forward to the birth of a boy. Although Aigron did not care about this, politically speaking, he admitted that he had a son. It would be more beneficial for him.

- Of course, this can only be left to fate to decide, if it is a daughter, he will be very happy.

Even if it is not a son this time, he will have a lot of time with Teresa in the future, and sooner or later he will give birth to an heir.

Teresa's due date is approaching, and the civil and military officials in the Principality of Ioannina are all looking forward to it, waiting for the birth of this child. The relevant celebrations are already being prepared in an orderly manner, and this child will come in a grand celebration. to the human room.

In addition to preparing for the celebration of the newborn, the newly born Principality of Ioannina naturally has a lot of things to do. Fortunately, Father Faria, the prime minister of the principality, and other officials were working diligently, so everything stumbled into order.

Of course, the most important reason was Aegron's prestige. All orders issued in his name were unimpeded within the Duchy, and no one dared to question it. And because of Aegron's special arrangement, this new country has a clear hierarchy, and the core layer is all senior members of the Knights Order designated by him, and there are no particularly complicated interest groups, and internal friction is controlled to a minimum.

However, all this comes at a price. The top officials have paid a lot of attention, especially Father Faria, who is the Prime Minister. He is already old and in poor health. After half a year After a lot of mental exhaustion, he has endured a super-intensive load, and his body has become worse and worse.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the priest is wasting his few lifespans. Of course, Father Faria knows it better than others. However, even if he knows this, the priest still ignores his exhaustion and devotes himself to the work with high intensity.

Finally, the consequences of this high-intensity consumption appeared, and he began to pant frequently or twitch uncontrollably, and sometimes even fell into a brief faint.

And all this was also seen by Chanel.

When Father Faria came to Monte Cristo Island, Chanel had been instructed to take care of the old man and forged a deep friendship with each other. Although she is no longer in charge of this work, she still visits from time to time. Father Faria, worried about his body.

Father Faria told Chanel in every possible way not to tell His Majesty about his current situation, but after he fainted again, Chanel finally couldn't bear it any longer. Take a break.

After listening to Chanel's statement, Aigron was also quite shocked and heartbroken, and hurriedly came to visit the priest.

As the Prime Minister of the Principality, Father Faria naturally also has a rather splendid official residence in the city. He usually works in this official residence. Occasionally, he will be pushed by the servants around him to go out for a stroll along the street and breathe. Take a peek at the outside air—but lately, with his weakening body, such leisurely entertainment has become extremely rare.

After Aegron came to the official residence, of course the guards did not dare to stop him, he walked directly into it, and then came to the Prime Minister's office.

At this time, Father Faria was lying on the rocking chair, squinting slightly, listening to the secretary reading the official document. He went up and fell asleep, but the opinions and orders he uttered from time to time proved that he did not fall into a deep sleep, and his thinking was still the same as before. Sharply awake.

Just when he was doing business, he heard the sound of the door opening, and it was hard for him to turn his head to see who was coming, but he felt very unhappy because he hated being taken by others while he was doing business. disturb.

"Who is it? Wait outside first, I don't have time to meet you right now!" he whispered.

However, he soon knew that he had made a mistake, because the secretary next to him stopped reading, but looked at the direction of the door tremblingly and saluted, "Your Majesty..."

Father Faria was startled, and then he struggled to get up, the secretary quickly bent over to support him, and only then did the priest see clearly that His Majesty was standing at the door, and behind him followed Chanel, two people They all looked at him worriedly.

The priest looks much older now than when he first went to Monte Cristo Island more than a year ago. Although his body was very clean by the servants, the wrinkles on his face and his completely gray hair made him look full of decay. Old-fashioned, and the smell of medicine in the room proves how weak the host here is.

Aegron looked at his "old minister" and felt a little uncomfortable.

After returning to the Principality, although he had met Father Faria several times, his main energy was to accompany his wife, and he did not realize that the physical condition of the priest had weakened to such an extent.

But in the current environment, smelling the smell of medicine in the room and looking at such an old priest, he felt the ruthlessness of the years.

The priest is not an old servant of the Bonaparte family, and even he was imprisoned because of the spies of the Empire. However, since he was put under his command, he can be said to help himself with full enthusiasm. Aigron can be sure that for himself The cause of his career, he paid no less effort than anyone else.

At his strong request, Aegron appointed him as the prime minister of the duchy, and he has really worked hard in this position. Aegron believes that among his men, no one will do better than him.

But if it continued like this, it was obvious that the priest would run out of fuel and leave the world before long - something Aegron never wanted to see.

In the original world line, Edmund Dantes was imprisoned in 1815. After 14 years in prison, the priest died. He took the opportunity to escape and escape, which means that the priest died in 1829.

Now that the timeline is mid-1828, if the priest continues to consume like this, Aigron estimates that he may not even live to die in 1829.

In other words, after he was put under his command, he made his lifespan even shorter than staying in a black prison! If this becomes a reality, it will make him feel bad.

While Aigron pondered, Father Faria looked at the sudden appearance of His Majesty in astonishment, and the others did not dare to speak, so the room fell into an awkward silence.

After a while, Aegron carefully walked in front of the priest, then squatted down and looked at the priest. "Your Excellency, I heard that you have been in poor health recently, so I came to visit you."

"I am honored to be taken care of by Your Majesty." Father Faria came back to his senses, and then replied in an old and weak voice, "But please rest assured, I can still bear it, and can normally perform the tasks you have given me. mission."

"Come on, let's stop talking like this." Aigron interrupted the other party directly, "Father, you know that I am a smart person, I will judge what I see based on my own eyes, your current body I can see at a glance how the state is, so don't be stubborn."

Father Faria didn't dare to argue any more, just raised his head and glanced at Chanel, who could only curtsy to him with a wry smile, asking the old priest to forgive his "leaking" behavior.

"Don't blame Chanel, all her starting points are for your own good. She hopes that you can live a few more years and stay with us." Aigron also saw what the priest was thinking, so he spoke again, "Father, I have granted you a holiday. During this time, you don't have to do such heavy government work, you just need to rest in peace. As for the time, it depends on your physical recovery."

Father Faria became anxious when he heard this. His breathing became rapid and intermittent, and he begged to him with a hiss, "Your Majesty... are you going to dismiss me? I beg you not to..."

"No, I didn't say that I would dismiss you. You are still the Prime Minister, and you will always be." Aegron shook his head, "I just said that you need to rest so that you can better perform your Prime Minister's duties in the future."

Aigron didn't expect that the priest did not appreciate it, but became more and more resistant, "You are even worse than dismissing me... You are announcing to everyone that I am not qualified for my job, just because of my past friendship. You are pitiful, so you gave me this honor, so that I can take my official position to make my own shroud, and honestly go to the gods."

"You shouldn't think that way..." Agron frowned.

At this point, few people dared to refute him or resist his decision in person, but seeing the priest so old and weak, Aigron couldn't bear to scold him again, so he put his tone softer, "You. Your work achievements, as well as your loyalty to me, are in everyone's eyes, no one will believe me to deny your work, let alone pity you... I just want you to get back to health as soon as possible and serve me Longer time, instead of running out of fuel in a few months! If you want to listen to good things, I will say it directly, Father, I miss you, and I hope you will stay with us in the future, at least Live until I am crowned! But it is hard to be confident in the way I am now."

Although Aegron had long been accustomed to speaking wrongly, the words at this time were somewhat sincere, and this truth moved the priest to the point of tears.

"Do you know how precious and unbearable it is for me to be needed by someone, especially a big man like you?" There were a few vague tears in his old and cloudy eyes, and then he said to me. Aigron confided, "Your Majesty, I received a strict education in my early years and became a clergyman. This is not my own will but the arrangement of my parents. No one has asked me what I want, what I want to be, what I like...I It's just that I was arranged to do this and that. I did it without complaint, but I didn't get a few compliments. I'm just an inconspicuous person in this world, and I don't even have the right to be recorded a single word!

Later, I was fortunate to be the secretary of the Spada family, and I was finally valued. The prince treated me like a nephew. He gave me real warmth. He worked with me patiently and instructed me on how to become a good secretary. It was with him that I finally experienced that feeling of being respected...but even so, our identities were too far apart, and I was not qualified to do anything for him, and then he passed away, just like this I say goodbye. Then, it didn't take long for me to be in a cell, and everyone thought of me as an old lunatic, an old lunatic who claimed to have a huge treasure! No one respects me, no one believes me, and no one is willing to spend even a trivial price to verify whether what I said is right or not. Obviously I put Jinshan in front of them, but no one is willing to cherish my value. , they laughed at me and scolded me, took me as a joke... I can only be bored in the dark mud of the prison, gritted my teeth and endured it all, I was abandoned by the whole world... I was desperate, I thought I would die like this, melted in In these black mud, there is no trace left in this world. "

Then, he raised his head to look at Aegron, and his tone was also cheered up, "However, fate favored me in the end, just this one time, but this time is enough... Your Majesty, I have your approval. And trust, I have been entrusted by you, it is a small thing for you, but you know what it means to me? I am recognized by one of the most powerful people in the world! My life The knowledge of my life, the ups and downs of my life, it has meaning, and I can finally leave traces for the rest of my life... I am a person, not a pool of black mud, Your Majesty, do you want me to turn back into black mud again?"

The priest looked at Aegron like this, his eyes were sobbing, and this gaze made Aegron not know what to say for a while.

Yeah, what to say?