Chapter 703: Those Differences

The indicator lights in the eye sockets have been turned off, as if in a deep sleep, or it may be that he turned off his sensor system very sensiblely, and let the two of them whisper for a while.

Tang Fang slowly calmed down his restlessness, and quietly waited for her next narration.

Elena said that her mother had a sad smile in the photo, and she is not the same now. She is beautiful, clean and thorough, but the current her is a kind of beauty that makes people feel distressed, not a beauty that surprises or moves people.

"My mother is a reporter. She was born and grew up in the Charles Federation. Without those things, she might not have had any contact with nobles in her life..." She paused here, realizing that the words were a little bit Inappropriate, corrected: "Life contacts."

Laura Passy is a reporter, and it is inevitable that she will interact with some small and medium-sized nobles in the expert country during her work. Therefore, what Elena said earlier was a bit imprecise.

"Until 16 years ago, when she was 29 years old and I was not born yet."

"That year, His Royal Highness the Regent was high-spirited, that year His Majesty the King endured the burden, and that year, the Duke of Kenar finally made up his mind to reform the decadent social system."

"His first substantive reform measure was to open media control and allow foreign media to enter 'Aitia'. It is conceivable what such a move represents in a special country. If it is the Monya Empire, Sulu Empire, For a country with supreme imperial power like the Phoenix Empire, I am afraid that His Majesty the Emperor will be stripped of titles and fiefdoms the next day, and punished as treason."

"The situation in the United Kingdom of Turanx is better, because the power of the king is not so absolute, and the hymn Vere has not been enthroned for long. It is not stable, and it is urgent to win over the nobles in the country to fight against the regent who is in the limelight. After weighing the pros and cons, Choose to turn a blind eye to my father's reform initiatives."

"His Majesty the King is very smart. He doesn't think that his father's reforms can be carried out. There will be many people, many families, and many vested interest groups who will jump out to obstruct the reforms. Father alone will not be able to change the general situation of the country. Instead, he will dig himself out. grave."

"He is very far-sighted. The reform faced a lot of resistance from the very beginning, whether it was inside or outside the Duchy of Kenal."

"After many times of persuasion and no results, some old people who resist reform and companies with aristocratic backgrounds choose to use tough methods."

"They planned a terrorist attack against their father, thinking that it would be best to kill him. Even if they can't, they can remind him to restrain himself in the future, and it is best to dispel the idea of ​​reform."

"Father is not dead, several of his bodyguards died, and many civilians. When Buffel rushed to the scene with the quick reaction force,

When the situation is under control and he is rescued from the trapped place. The first batch of foreign journalists stationed in 'Aitiya' rushed to the scene, and among them was Laura Passy---my mother. "

"My father didn't just leave, and he didn't stop the reporters from entering the scene. While transferring to the ambulance, he gave up his magnetic levitation stretcher to a civilian, and dug out a wailing corpse from the rubble with his bloody hands. stray dogs."

"Some people thought he was acting in front of foreign reporters. My mother didn't think so, because my father asked the commoner's name, and he remembered it!"

"So she plucked up the courage to go to the ambulance. Ignoring the obstruction of the military and police, she asked loudly if she could conduct an exclusive interview with him."

"A foreign reporter. A duke, not only the status is very different. Such an interview is bound to involve a sensitive political situation. After the terrorist attack just experienced, no one thinks that the Duke of Congreve will accept Laura's interview request. Even if he wants to convey something to the outside world, he will think it over carefully, plan it carefully, and express it in some unnutritious official phrases."

"To everyone's surprise, he said yes, and didn't schedule another time, in that ambulance, right after he had a flesh injury on his shoulder."

"He also didn't answer those sharp questions with official language and stereotypes, and he didn't cover up the political ugliness behind this terrorist attack. He said that he would not stop, for reform, and for those who obstruct reform."

"So... my mother and my father met in that place full of blood, fire, and political crimes. Then, my mother became my father's most trusted foreign reporter, and my mother was featured in many interviews about reform."

"I read my mother's diary. In fact, she agreed with some media people at the beginning, thinking that her father was just acting on the occasion and using the power of the media to achieve her own political goals. But as time went by, she changed from mistrust to Suspicion, then turned from suspicion to admiration, and then I wanted to know more about him, and then, the two came together...it was the initiative of the mother."

"Because my father has a very special personality charm, just like a passage my mother wrote in her diary: 'Until now, I don't know why he accepted the interview without hesitation after the terrorist attack, because he didn't want to go back, just as What I said in my ear --- when the outside world is full of resistance, all I can do is to push myself into a desperate situation, and turn no retreat into a motivation to move forward. Thinking about it seriously, such words come from a The duke said it was really cute, like his rosacea, and his drunken nonsense that people can't bear to look at.'”

"In my mother's eyes, compared to those aristocratic lords who are polite on the surface and love the people like sons, but are full of men and women whore, my father is more like an old boy who doesn't hit the south wall and doesn't look back, and hits the south wall and doesn't look back. Of course , This is just his essence, in fact, he also does what politicians do, but often he doesn't bother to do it."

Tang Fang interjected at this moment, raised his eyebrows and said, "Why do I feel like your father is like me?"

Elena didn't delve into the disrespect in this sentence, but her pink face suddenly burned up. She remembered what she said just now --- "It was the mother who took the initiative", in other words, it was his mother who seduced Congreve.

Now, it was she who proposed to Tang Fang, and he said that his personality was very similar to Congreve's.

Captain Tang quickly came to his senses, and quickly brought the conversation back on track: "And then?"

Elena continued the narration just now: "Then the mother became pregnant... After all, she has no status, and of course, the mother did not want a status. She just pursued her love stubbornly, ignoring the opposition of all relatives and friends, and determined to make The baby in the womb is born."

"Because my father's reform cause has really touched the actual interests of the nobles in the territory, it has become difficult. Considering his own safety. There are other influences, so my mother quit her job and returned to the Charles Federation."

"Not long after she came back, she had a quarrel with my grandparents, and moved to 'Amya' to live alone, quietly waiting for the child to be born. Of course... Father sent an old housekeeper and several bodyguards to take care of her. But It doesn't soothe my mother's loneliness and sadness."

"A few months later, my father had no choice but to use the power of the army to deprive a dozen nobles who openly resisted the reform of their titles, as well as the official positions of the related clansmen, when the reform cause of 'Aitiya' was almost at a standstill. Those who disobeyed were captured or even killed for disobeying the orders of the lord."

"This triggered a riot, ranging from people's livelihood, transportation, to economic turmoil. Everyone in the several big families was in danger, worried that such a thing would happen to them, so many people who opposed the reformist group Move to 'Josena' controlled by Surbacho, Reeves and others."

"My mother was very worried about my father's safety, and she lost a lot of weight. She was separated and frightened for a long time. The incomprehension of her relatives and the pessimism that she could not see the future put her under great pressure. So... During that period, her face The smiles on the screen are all like this, with sadness and sadness."

She stopped talking, she was already fast asleep, the rabbit was fast asleep, and the kitten between the boards had also narrowed its eyes.

The water droplets slapped the green leaves, making a light "click, click" sound. There are water marks on the bright fruit grains, and the dampness spreads on the melon stand on the ridge of the field. Bring a little bit of coolness.

This is the taste only at night in early autumn... He still remembers the life he used to have.

That's it? Elena said so much in one breath, and it ended so simply?

No. There are more below. She is telling a story, the story of her parents and him, rather than simply explaining why the smile on her mother's face is so distressing.

"What's next?"

Elena looked at the somewhat blurred face under the dim light, and said, "Do you really want to hear it?"

Tang Fang said: "I have always been a very competent listener. I hate anticlimactic stories the most. If it is not exciting enough, I will curse the storyteller. If it is exciting enough, I will buy him a drink."

Elena asked: "Then will you curse me?"

"I will punish you for copying the Great Compassion Mantra a thousand times."

The girl thought for a while and said, "I'd better continue talking."

"On the one hand, my mother is worried about the tense situation in the Duchy of Kenal, and on the other hand, she doesn't want to go back to my father to avoid his distraction. In fact, there is another important reason. She hopes that I can be born in the Charles Federation and be an ordinary person. Instead of competing with my brothers for property."

"She is a reporter. She has seen many grievances and grievances of nobles, and heard of many fratricides. Moreover, from her father's experience, she knows that those people who are more dazzling than the spotlight have actually been living in darkness, companions with demons, and Dining with ghosts."

"When the child in her womb was about to come into this world, she gave her a nice name, Elena."

"No one thought that this was the last gift she would give her daughter."

"After those who opposed the reform moved to 'Josena', the civil strife in the Duchy of Kenar escalated. In order to fight against their father, they formed an anti-reform alliance headed by Reeves and Sulbacho, relying on the 'Josena' armed forces, to perpetuate their privileges, and to safeguard the interests of the aristocracy."

"At such a tense moment, Amanda's Crivatt family proposed a plan that could deal a strong blow to her father, and then passed it without any resistance, and received the unanimous approval and approval of all members of the Knar family in the 'Josena' system. support."

"Yes, they are going to attack my mother... when she is about to give birth, they will give father a fatal blow, regardless of the fact that the child in her womb is also a member of the Kerner family, and regardless of the mother's outsider's attitude Identity...Maybe they don't think mother is an outsider, on the contrary, it is she who poisoned father's thinking and made him go farther and farther on the road of reform."

"No matter what they think, after spending a lot of money to bribe several local policemen, their assassination succeeded. The bodyguards arranged by my father failed to save my mother's life. She was shot in the heart with a pistol. When the ambulance boat arrived I'm not breathing anymore."

"Fortunately, the child is still alive..."

Having said that, Elena looked up into his eyes and said, "I'm still alive..."

Under the dim light, those clean eyes were slightly red.

"The doctor told the old housekeeper that the mother's physique is weak, and there is still a long time before she gives birth. Although the child is still alive, there is no guarantee that she can grow up healthily."

"But...the child survived."

"I... survived."

They are still two short sentences with similar meanings, but they contain different things, which belong to Eileen's emotions.

"So. My birthday is the same day as my mother's death day."

Tang Fang felt her heart twitch violently, but she didn't accuse or shout. Just telling a fact calmly is more powerful than any accusation or cry.

The end of Laura's life was the beginning of Elena's life, and the culprit behind all of this was her elder brother who had the same blood in her body.

"Grandpa and grandma didn't accept me, they just took away my mother's ashes."

"I don't hate them, I really don't hate them, because of my existence. Let them turn against each other, and because of my existence, my mother walks ahead of them."

"The third year after my mother died. Grandpa once went to 'Amya' to look for me, because my grandmother called 'Laura' and 'Eileen' when she was in a coma. Unfortunately, he couldn't find it. The old housekeeper had brought me Let me leave that sad place."

"Two years later, grandpa also left. It is said that there are photos of grandma and mother on the cabinet next to the hospital bed. There is also a photo of little Elena wearing a white dress and laughing in the sun sent by the old housekeeper."

"I don't know what kind of life my father lived in those years. It wasn't until I grew up and read the news reports of the Internet media that I realized that the reform process of 'Aradelle' had stagnated for three years. During that time he seldom appeared in front of the media, and even if he did appear occasionally, he was either haggard or drunk."

"He... is really not good at adjusting his emotions. Just like what his mother described, he is a lord on the surface, but he is an old boy who doesn't grow up in his bones."

She paused, and looked at Tang Fang with somewhat complicated eyes.

"Anyway, he's back on his feet, but he's more aggressive than before in his approach to reform and less of a moderate path."

"Father has always been very kind to me. Although I haven't seen him a few times since I grew up, I still see a lot of guilt, a lot of love, and a lot of sadness in his eyes."

"He felt guilty for not being able to grow up with his little daughter, guilty for making her lose her mother, and guilty for not being able to give her a normal life. As for the sadness, I think... maybe I saw the shadow of my mother in me." . . . it must be so."

"Later, my father sent it. Later, I learned many things, and I also learned a lot. Later, when I heard the news of my father's death, I cried for a long time in front of my mother and his photos."

"Not long after, Tang Lin found me, and I made my own choice to come to the United Kingdom of Turanx, come before you, and do what I should do."

"In fact, neither my mother nor my father wanted me to return to the United Kingdom of Turanx, to this place full of sadness. My father once said, I don't belong here, and my life should not be in Turanx. The United Kingdom is blooming. He wants me to live like a normal Charles girl."

"It's a pity that I didn't follow his teachings. I didn't choose the Commonwealth of Charles. Instead, I chose the place where my father grew up and where my mother met the most important person in her life."

"I'm not here to inherit my father's career, I'm here to end it!"

"My mother's tragedy, my father's suffering, my grandparents' regrets, and the pain I have experienced..."

"I don't want to see such a thing happen again, so I must use my heart and hands to change the entire duchy, and change this system that makes tragedies endlessly reincarnate."

"When such a fate came before me, I chose to bid farewell to my original life, follow Tang Lin back here, and ask for your help to be my strength."

"In return, I am willing to be your wife, take care of you wholeheartedly, and raise children for you... Although it is really difficult for me now."

"To be honest, I really don't know how to face you...I haven't fallen in love with you yet...I don't know what to do to be a qualified wife...I can't just treat you like Linglong and Yingluo. Brother... I am very confused, I still have some loss and sadness, and there is a faint sense of warmth and security... Maybe it is like the word 'mixed flavors'."

This time she didn't show a shy expression, but spoke very slowly with a slight trembling.

"Am I stubborn? Just like my mother described my father, 'Don't turn back if you hit the south wall, and don't turn back if you hit the south wall'?"

Tang Fang stretched out his hand to rub her head, and gave a soft "hmm".

She... is really a good girl.

Again, her strength is different from Zhou Ai, her gentleness is different from Claire, and her simplicity is even more different from Freya.

She is strong, she is gentle, she is simple, she is Elena.

She is who she is, unlike anyone else. (to be continued)

ps: I won’t admit that I’m writing daily, um, foreshadowing… foreshadowing…

I love Elena's.

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