Chapter 151 Little Loli and Her Bearded Man
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and the clouds are white. The weather is so good that it makes you feel happy.
Paris suburbs. It was still the King's Avenue where the Princess of the Two Sicilies came, once again welcoming distinguished guests.
This time, the decorations on both sides of the road remained basically unchanged, except that the troops responsible for guarding all had new faces, and the number was much larger than last time.
Due to the impact of the "gang attack on the Crown Prince" half a month ago, Queen Mary even mobilized the King's Swiss Guard to escort her niece who was about to arrive.
For a time, the Paris Legion in white uniforms and the Swiss Guards in red uniforms alternately guarded both sides of the road, forming another landscape in red and white.
In the carriage, Clementine flashed her big eyes that were somewhat similar to those of Joseph. She glanced over the dense crowd of guards, raised her head proudly, and smiled at the Tuscan ambassador in Italian: " Count Fanano, you saw it, His Royal Highness the Dauphin personally came to greet me with almost the entire army of Paris!
"Well, he must have heard about my cuteness from many people, haha."
The square-faced middle-aged man shook his head slightly with a grimace, and said to himself that you had not heard of the attack on the French Crown Prince a while ago. The stricter security was probably not for you...
Suddenly, a high-pitched trumpet sound came from ahead.
The Grand Duchess of Tuscany hurriedly put away her playful smile, hurriedly arranged her clothes, picked up the feather hat and put it on her head, and then began to recite in a low voice what she was going to say later.
The car stopped, and Ambassador Fanano bowed and opened the door. Clementine put on her most dignified appearance and walked down the wooden steps.
However, when she reached the second step, her foot suddenly slipped, she lost her center of gravity, and fell down with a scream.
Fortunately, the guard next to her had quick eyesight and quick hands, and jumped forward to drag her down. Only then did she almost avoid the embarrassing scene of chewing mud at her mouth, but the beautiful feather hat had already flown more than ten steps away.
Clementine's face blushed slightly. She looked up and saw the handsome Crown Prince looking at her. She hurriedly broke away from the guard's hand, picked up her skirt and walked forward, curtsied and said in impure French: "It's an honor to meet you, Your Highness the Crown Prince!
"Um, well, I saw everyone was looking serious just now, so I pretended to slip to make everyone laugh, hee hee..."
Joseph looked at the little loli in front of him who was talking to herself in a strange accent. He couldn't help crying or laughing. He hurriedly touched his chest and returned the greeting: "I'm glad to see you too. You are so funny, haha."
"Oh, by the way, in order to thank you for coming to pick me up, I have something special to give you." Little Loli said, taking a small wooden box from behind.
"'Li' thing" Joseph asked doubtfully, "Do you mean 'gift'?"
"Oh, yes, it's a gift." Clementine scratched her head and smiled, "My French is not that proficient, so don't take it too seriously. Here, this is for you."
"Thank you so much." Joseph took the wooden box and opened it, and saw a yellowed paper folding fan inside. "Is this... a folding fan? Give it to me?"
The little Lolita had a profound expression on her face and waved her hands: "No, dear cousin, this is an antique. I heard that you are very knowledgeable about Eastern culture, so I bought this for you. Oh. , it is said that this was used by a famous scholar in the Far East named ‘Confucius’!”
"Confucius? Folding fan?!" Joseph raised his forehead helplessly. The paper folding fan from the Spring and Autumn Period... This is equivalent to the Ming Dynasty blue and white porcelain plate with "Microwave Suitable" printed on it, or the bronze Four-Sheep Square Zun. The four sheep are Pleasant Goat, Mei Goat. Sheep, lazy sheep and boiling sheep...
Although he knew it was a little impolite, Joseph couldn't help but ask: "How much did you spend on this antique?"
"It's not expensive, it's 120 ducats." The little loli said happily, "As long as you like it."
120 gold ducats is nearly 800 livres. Oh my God! Spending so much money to buy a fake... Joseph was a little confused about whether to remind her, but thinking that the little girl had good intentions no matter what, he decided not to embarrass her.
He put away Clementine's gifts, exchanged a few words with her, and was about to ask her to get in the car and return to the Palace of Versailles, when he saw that she had already jumped up to Quesode, smiling very brightly: " This is a gift for you, I hope you like it.”
Then, she gave gifts to Eman, the chamberlain who was traveling with him, and gifts to the officers of the Paris Legion...
Joseph raised his forehead again. Isn't this little girl a little bit awesome?
Clementine was giving her happy birthday when a dark cloud suddenly covered the sun, and it started to rain lightly in the sky that had been clear just a moment ago.
Joseph hurriedly took the opportunity to greet his cousin Sheniu to get in the car. The convoy was greeted and set off again.
However, before reaching Paris, the axle of Clementine's carriage suddenly broke. Joseph looked at the raindrops jumping on the ground and asked Eman to invite his cousin to his car.
The little Loli wiped the rain off her arms and face with a handkerchief, and said with a smile: "The car broke down suddenly. But it doesn't matter, I often encounter such bad luck, haha. People must always stay optimistic."
As she spoke, she magically took out a handful of candies and placed them on the wooden table in front of her. She tilted her head and looked at Joseph: "Cousin, let me treat you to some candy. This vanilla mint candy is my 'tan' point." The chef’s unique skills can’t be found anywhere else.”
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Fortunately, the rest of the journey went smoothly, and the rain gradually stopped when the convoy arrived at the Palace of Versailles.
Queen Marie, with a kind smile on her face, waited with Louis XVI in the marble square outside the main gate.
The little girl got off the car, jumped up and saluted the king and queen, and then threw herself into her aunt's arms and quietly stuffed her with a handful of vanilla mint candy: "This is made by Mr. Reina himself."
"Oh, thank you so much, my sweetheart! This is really the taste of my hometown."
When Clementine saluted all the way and came to Princess Therese, she was immediately excited when she saw the blue-gray Chartres cat in her arms: "Wow! It's so beautiful and cute! Can I touch it?
"Wow, it's so good. By the way, I have a cat too. I love it very much, and its name is 'Mr. Beard'.
"Oh, you must want to see Mr. Beard too. I'll go and pick it up, hehe!"
Therese looked confused as the little girl turned and ran to the servant's carriage, and returned with a black and white long-haired cat.
"Look, isn't it cute too?"
Joseph was almost amused when he saw Clementine's cat nearby - the cat's head was basically pure white, with only a small tuft of black hair growing on the "philtrum", which made it look like a failed art student.
No wonder it was called Mr. Beard.
What no one noticed was that Mr. Beard's eyes were fixed on the Chartres cat in Therese's arms, and suddenly he stretched out his claws and waved them in the air, and kept "meowing" in a flattering manner. And Therese's cat also responded by twisting its body with a seductive look.